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Illan wall

@illanwall.bsky.social
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Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.

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Emily Williams @emilywilliams19.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today, we are proud to launch the Irish Network of Legal Observers first annual report! 📣 This work would not be possible without the dedication of our volunteer legal observers and the commitment from ICCL staff and @illanwall.bsky.social to organise the trainings.
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Brilliant, sharp incisive criticism of the new Garda Powers Bill from Cian Ó Concubhair: the absence of explicit powers to record racial data in particular is such an important point: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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New Garda powers bill could conceal abuses
Gardaí can consistently deny racial profiling because there is no data on who is stopped and searched — but the new powers bill doesn't allow this data to be collected. Why, asks Cian Ó Concubhair
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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A wonderful way to remember the work and intellectual contribution of Emilios, who sadly passed away this week. The entire Legal Theory community in Edinburgh mourns the loss of an incredibly kind colleague and friend, who will be sorely missed.
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Emilios has gone way too soon. I have very warm memories of the many encounters with him, either in the Old College or on the basketball court. When Emilios was in the room, you couldn't not notice him. My love to his family and many, many friends
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
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Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Very excited for the next Critical Legal Conference, this year being hosted by Westminster Uni. We have this teaser of the theme: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/03/c...
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CLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
So excited to be republishing Brian Massumi's most recent post on affective politics in the US, in particular focusing in on norms - so particularly important for a critical legal audience: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/29/n...
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Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly
It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached.
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
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Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
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Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
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Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Now for something slightly different: Hegel on international law, intervention, war criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/26/o...
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One’s own morality as the highest court: A variation on Hegel’s concept of international law
Whether international law constitutes an independent legal domain endowed with sanctioning power with regard to its subjects is a question that has
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Next up in the Critical Legal Thinking series on neo-imperialism and the brutal and slow collapse of American hegemony is Shahin Nasiri, exploring the current round of protests in Iran and the way they are situated geopolitically: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/21/i...
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Iran’s Uprising: Between Clerical Violence and Neo-colonial Aggression
None The beginning of 2026 marked yet another human tragedy for Iranian society. In January, hundreds of thousands of Iranian protesters took to the
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Continuing our series, today Stewart Motha explores the relations of dispossession and colonisation in the scramble for Greenland: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
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Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession
When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S
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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are excited to announce Elisa Loncón Antileo and Nicholas Blomley as our keynote speakers for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography. Learn more about these great leaders on our conference page @ www.clg.place
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CLG Place
The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Continuing our series on contemporary US aggression, Christine Schwobel Patel explores the Greenland crisis: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...
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Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place
Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇 Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social? They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves. What's their problem?
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Niall Murphy @niallgalway.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it? www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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Is Galway hostile to pedestrians?
There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of someone driving through Galway in 1965. The car drives along Bridge Street and Mainguard Street, before turning onto Shop street.
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@illanwall.bsky.social is right. It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.
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The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions
The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown: share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
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NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...
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Scenes of Disappearance
The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.
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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens
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Irish Legal News @irishlegal.com · 24/10/2025
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
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Tenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisation
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly @iclq.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ? All articles are fully #OpenAccess. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come". @illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Palestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London police
With Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, a September protest attended by 1,500 people meant the Met was unable to arrest them all, showing the limits of the criminal justic...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We have just released 1st report of our legal observers network, following Garda use of force at protest on the 04/10/25 at the port tunnel. We had 7 observers there, whogathered significant evidence of the Gardai's actions on the day. The full report is available here. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂
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National Sculpture Factory @sculpturefactory.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Land for the People Third Edition, a workbook by Eimear Walshe, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. €5 including postage, buy your copy here - buy.stripe.com/4gw6rpbyw0sb... 📷 Simon Curran
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Loughborough Law @lawatloughborough.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
👋 Introducing Loughborough Law: a brand new law school bringing a critical and inter-disciplinary approach to legal research + teaching. Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events. @khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I. Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...
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New Book Series: Law, Culture and Justice (Bristol Uni Press)
We are delighted to announce a new series to foster critical, theoretically and methodologically innovative, culturally informed work on law and justice.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 09/10/2025
"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning." They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Constitution of Turbulence
<div> <div> <div> <p><span>When the left-wing indigenous candidate Evo Morales was elected as President of Bolivia in 2006, the movement he led was faced
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...
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The Culpable Liberal, The Latte Legalist and the End of the Settler Siege at Sea
**We are delighted to say that this post has been translated into Japanese by Yota Negishi, available here** It is the early hours of the morning on the
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Netpol @netpol.org · 07/10/2025
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025. Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Photo of protesters opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Leave aside the Connolly campaign. Consider all the people who go through garda vetting. That is a significant bloc of the population- volunteer parents helping kids in sports, at scouts, in charities. Will that police data leak if the Gardaí want to intervene in a political campaign in the future?
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
this is HUGE!!!
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Tear gas is such a terrible chemical weapon it is banned in warfare. Many don't realise it comes in different strengths. If there are suffocation cases then this is likely CS in high concentrations, or CN. CN is the most intense & destructive tear gas. It chemically burns eyes & results in deaths
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology
Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this art
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology
Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this art
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you are interested in submitting to the issue, please send an expression of interest including an abstract to the editors by Friday 31st October 2025. Editors: Matilda Arvidsson (matilda.arvidsson@law.gu.se) Nicola Barker (nicola.barker@liverpool.ac.uk) Loveday Hodson (lch8@leicester.ac.uk)
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
As the videos of Defend our juries arrests over the civil disobedience against the proscription of Palestine action, this short explainer in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social might be helpful: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Palestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London police
With Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, a September protest attended by 1,500 people meant the Met was unable to arrest them all, showing the limits of the criminal justic...
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Brilliant new special issue of Law and Critique available on Memory Politics: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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On Memory, Law, and Politics: An Introduction - Law and Critique
Law and Critique -
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