By Per Laleng In Part I, I noted that the threshold question (“Does the conduct engage the public interest?”), and the Patel … Read more
Category: Law
Is ‘econo-socio-legal’ a useful term?
This post has been cross-posted on Amanda’s personal blog, Approaching law. It summarises a presentation delivered as part of the Law and Political Economy Stream … Read more
Deflecting, Not Protecting: The Limits of the UK’s Advertising Ban on Unhealthy Food
Asta is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School. In January 2026, new statutory … Read more
Reflections on the humanitarian emergency facing refugees in Moria, Lesvos (Greece)
Last Wednesday, the first images began to circulate online from the fires in Moria, the large and infamous refugee camp on the Greek island of … Read more
Thinking between words and traditions
Earlier this year Thanos Zartaloudis kindly accepted my request to ask him some questions about his recent book The Birth of Nomos; a book I … Read more
International Law’s Past, Present and Future: A Conversation with Antony Anghie
An internationally renowned scholar in the field of international law, Professor Anghie looks beyond traditional legal sources and doctrines in order to critique the enduring … Read more
Labour, Law, Control: Migrant Workers and Unfree Labour
My research project interrogates different legal frameworks addressing ‘unfree labour’ of migrant workers; it asks whether a ‘labour approach’ can better explain this phenomenon, and … Read more
Fire safety cannot wait: launch of Fire Safety Checklist
Fire safety cannot wait, that is why we are launching the Fire Safety Checklist One of the things that comes out of the terrible tragedies … Read more
Methodology and Methods Roundtable: At the Crossroads of Interdisciplinary Methods and Conversations
On Thursday 4 April 2019, the first Methods and Methodology Roundtable of the annual SLSA conference presented a thought-provoking and enlightening discussion hypothesising how varying legal … Read more
Financial Regulation and Social Reproduction
Even amongst critical scholars, there is a tendency to treat international regulation of money and finance as “strictly economic”, distinct from the “social” domains of … Read more