Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The housing crisis is genuinely insane. PM me and I may be able to connect them to one room. 310
Reposted by Illan wallEmily Williams @emilywilliams19.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Today, 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. 033
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Brilliant, 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...irishexaminer.comNew Garda powers bill could conceal abusesGardaí 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 053
Reposted by Illan wallEdinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A 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. 0126
Reposted by Illan wallPaolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Emilios 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 252
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Following 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...criticallegalthinking.comFriendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone WeilIn his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios 0117
Reposted by Illan wallProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026Tear 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.propublica.orgTear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let OnIn 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... 8252742743
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Very 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...criticallegalthinking.comCLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative 013
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 29/01/2026So 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...criticallegalthinking.comNormopathy Today: Norms Behaving BadlyIt 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. 033
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Next 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...criticallegalthinking.comAnalysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri AzarThis interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally 000
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Next 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...criticallegalthinking.comAnalysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri AzarThis interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally 000
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Next 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...criticallegalthinking.comAnalysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri AzarThis interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally 011
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Now for something slightly different: Hegel on international law, intervention, war criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/26/o...criticallegalthinking.comOne’s own morality as the highest court: A variation on Hegel’s concept of international lawWhether international law constitutes an independent legal domain endowed with sanctioning power with regard to its subjects is a question that has 264
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Next 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...criticallegalthinking.comIran’s Uprising: Between Clerical Violence and Neo-colonial AggressionNone The beginning of 2026 marked yet another human tragedy for Iranian society. In January, hundreds of thousands of Iranian protesters took to the 020
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Continuing our series, today Stewart Motha explores the relations of dispossession and colonisation in the scramble for Greenland: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...criticallegalthinking.comGreenland and the Spectre of DispossessionWhen it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S 000
Reposted by Illan wallCritical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026We 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.placeclg.placeCLG PlaceThe 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 ... 063
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Continuing our series on contemporary US aggression, Christine Schwobel Patel explores the Greenland crisis: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...criticallegalthinking.comGreenland between a Rock and a Hard PlaceAmid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers 041
Reposted by Illan wallCosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Four 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? 283
Reposted by Illan wallNiall Murphy @niallgalway.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Excellent 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...advertiser.ieIs 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. 0209
Reposted by Illan wallCosáin 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. 032
Reposted by Illan wallStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners. 311861
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Anyone who would like to write something on his work, please let me know and we will do a series on critical legal thinking to mark his passing. www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-o...routledge.comThe Ethics of Justice Without IllusionsThe 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... 001
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Ive 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.routledge.comThe Ethics of Justice Without IllusionsThe 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... 160
Reposted by Illan wallColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 26/10/2025More 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...share.googleNI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via DublinExclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital 813775
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...soundcloud.comScenes of DisappearanceThe podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade. 021
Reposted by Illan wallYou Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens 1244
Reposted by Illan wallIrish Legal News @irishlegal.com · 24/10/2025The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.irishlegal.comTenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisationThe Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords. 051
Reposted by Illan wallInternational & Comparative Law Quarterly @iclq.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ? All articles are fully #OpenAccess. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 072
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 20/10/2025My 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/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 042
Reposted by Illan wallShane 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...irishexaminer.comPalestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London policeWith 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... 032
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Its definitely going into an article Im doing with @aoifemod.bsky.social on the postcolonial irish constitution. But Ill keep trying to get it into any teaching too. 020
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025We 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...iccl.ie 020
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂 1108
Reposted by Illan wallNational Sculpture Factory @sculpturefactory.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The 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 121
Reposted by Illan wallLoughborough 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 0104
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Yes higher standards in terms of what goes into the cattle, but slurry is a key component of organic farming. They are still going to present similar problems to nitrogen run off from inorganic fertilisers. 100
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025presumably he will gradually sidle over to FF so he can get elected again. 240
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Why is that astonishing? Organic just means they don't use chemical fertiliser and feed? They still have to collect and spread slurry, and so the risks of slurry being released into water are just as significant? 110
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 10/10/2025bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/critical-per...bristoluniversitypress.co.ukCritical Perspectives on Law, Culture and Justice 000
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I'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...criticallegalthinking.comNew 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. 112
Reposted by Illan wallmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Thiessen 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. 6164211353
Reposted by Illan wallPaul 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...🤔 1510760
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe 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 020
Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...criticallegalthinking.comThe 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 000
Reposted by Illan wallNetpol @netpol.org · 07/10/2025Netpol'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... 12415
Reposted by Illan wallMalcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 05/10/2025TERRORISM 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. 877140606075
Reposted by Illan wallSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Leave 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? 39942