Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 6hDay 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law” 1257
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRuth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here’s the first of a series of 10 blogs we’re doing this week for #SafeAbortionDay #Sept28 To call for more legal witnessing of soft law barriers to abortion care and challenge harmful exclusions and unworkable time limits dflw.ie/witnessing-l... Time to address failed EMA up against 12 weeks!dflw.ieWitnessing legal implementation after #repealedthe8th: Soft law and the curious case of discontinuous care after a failed early medical abortion - Doing Feminist Legal Work“It was like an epiphany. We just felt a weight lifted off us to know that there was even an option. They told me someone local to me where I could go and 199
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialIoana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026'In Disabling Capitalism, Chis crafts a ground-breaking anti-productivist, collectivist and disability abolitionist vision. It makes essential reading for our age of intensified capitalist disablement and precarious work' Arianna Introna (Open University) author of Crip Enchantments #AcademicChatter 1135
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026For many academics in the UK, there are increasingly narrow career pathways - teaching only contracts or conducting 'strategic' research. In our latest dispatch, Eva Nanopoulos interrogates how the university's two-tier system reinforces precarity f.mtr.coolThe Two-Tier University 12116
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026BIG NEWS 💥 We are excited and proud to announce the first keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: ROBERT KNOX (@pashukanist.bsky.social). Rob will be delivering a keynote talk titled 'Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law'. 35315
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 02/07/2026What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series bit.lyThe exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities 0118
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialKate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Fantastic work on protest and public order offences from my @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social colleagues www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...theguardian.comNew breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences riseMore people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals 01717
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialThe Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Plants against Property🌱 In our latest blog, @sarahkeenan.bsky.social explores how corporate risk, colonial histories and market logics shape land value - and how plants push back, forcing land to be used as a habitat & resource rather than a market commodity ccccjustice.org/2026/02/02/e... 042
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialCentre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Delighted to be welcoming Prof. Tony Anghie to offer Reflections on International Law in a Time of Disorder (introduced by Prof. Ratna Kapur) 022
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 27/03/2026Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)" 26244
nanoboss.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social · 20/02/2026After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...eventbrite.co.ukMichael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and MarxBook discussion organised by the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) 043
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialVicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1timeshighereducation.comJo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after claiming incumbent broke rules by using union resources 11621
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialIllan 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 @nanoboss.bsky.socialNeve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza. 0105
nanoboss.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social · 25/01/2026An amazing afternoon and evening, many thanks to all our speakers! 021
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comImprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’ 591075547
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialCentre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Solidarity to our partners (and all staff/students) @birzeit.bsky.social as Israeli forces storm their campus english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail... 023
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialDimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social. With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi". 👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-...eventbrite.co.ukThe State of Critique: CCLAS LaunchJoin us to celebrate the launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) 1138
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialMarina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025‘protesters refusing food’ if only there was a phrase that captured this 031
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialMarie Thøgersen @mariethogersen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations. 23613
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialLegal Form @legalform.bsky.social · 17/11/2025In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...legalform.blogInternational Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so… 0228
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...podbean.comLaleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in PalestineIn the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ... 03324
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialEuropean Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Many thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social for putting together the Marxism and EU Law symposium. Good stuff, and long overdue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgIntroduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law | European Law Open | Cambridge CoreIntroduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law - Volume 4 Issue 2 032
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/20259/ It's 100 pages and around 60,000 words of Marxist analysis of the EU. We hope that it signals a break from the past, by introducing ideas and authors that offer a challenge to the very precepts of EU law. Read the full symposium here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #EULaw #Marxismcambridge.orgEuropean Law Open: Volume 4 - Issue 2 | Cambridge CoreCambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 4 - Issue 2 052
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/20253/ The centrepiece of the symposium is a 24,000 word programmatice article laying the groundwork for future approaches to EU law by me, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgCapitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach | European Law Open | Cambridge CoreCapitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach - Volume 4 Issue 2 102
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/20252/ Our introduction reflects on why Marxism has largely been absent from EU law: 🔹 EU law is often framed as technocratic & consensual, not as a site of class struggle 🔹 The field is unusually supportive of the European project, with limited critical approaches www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgIntroduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law | European Law Open | Cambridge CoreIntroduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law - Volume 4 Issue 2 101
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025New symposium out now🎉 Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship. Read now 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!) 14220
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever. This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best. 01411
nanoboss.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Chunky but hopefully helpful, Marxism has been noticeably absent from analyses of EU law. 020
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialBenjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you're concerned about these anticipated cuts and want to follow United Academics of the University of Oregon (AAUP-AFT 3209), they're here at @uauoregon.bsky.social - their newsletter and most recent update on this situation is at newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...newsletter.uauoregon.orgAfter Accepting a $25 Million Gift, UO Lays Off Faculty in new Schnitzer School. Fear of Larger Cuts in Fall.After Accepting a $25 Million Gift, UO Lays Off Faculty in new Schnitzer School. Fear of Larger Cuts in Fall. Within months of the $25 million gift, UO administration enacts disproportionate layof… 013
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialIain Alexander @iaingalexander.bsky.social · 14/08/2025*YOU* might be here to talk about A-Levels, but you shoved a mic and a camera in his face and this sound lad can and will say what he likes 06316
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialLegal Form @legalform.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.legalform.blogFrom Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de… 0105
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialLegal Form @legalform.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation. legalform.blog/2025/07/29/f...legalform.blogFrom Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de… 033
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialSarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Come work with me? qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...qmul-jobs.tal.netQuick Check Needed 021
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAnastasiya Kotova @anastasiyakotova.bsky.social · 24/07/2025This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 03813
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialhannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.ukI should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in GazaHome Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone 5385345
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... 47031
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialLegal Form @legalform.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...legalform.blogResisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice — Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin NasiriLeila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding … 011
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Big thanks to @acelg-uva.bsky.social for the fellowship and feedback on the paper Thanks also to @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social, Dimitrios + Maria Link to @europeanlawopen.bsky.social is here: doi.org/10.1017/elo.... Abstract below 👇 031
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025New publication 🙌 It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System. It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1136
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialLegal Form @legalform.bsky.social · 17/06/2025@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials: legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...legalform.blogSanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva NanopoulosRobert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial… 179
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.rm.bsky.socialBluesky 0135
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 13/06/2025hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it. bsky.app/profile/jour... 511544
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialDan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Absolutely fucking brilliant: students use AI to write their assignments, and then teachers use AI to grade them. David Graeber wrote an entire book on "bullshit jobs," but I don't think even he could foresee how rapidly we would all run off this cliff together. 821068
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialMiranda Prynne @mirandaprynne.bsky.social · 27/05/2025We need to acknowledge the realities of #poverty and #inequality among students, writes Jordan Donnelly of @uniwestscotland.bsky.social. He shares six principles to make #highereducation more #inclusive: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/be-aw... #EDI #edusky #educationtimeshighereducation.comBe aware of the invisible baggage of poverty your students carryWe need to acknowledge the realities of poverty and inequality, and the trauma it leaves our students with. Here are six principles to make higher education more inclusive 033
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialEuropean Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We need to talk about class some more. On First View, Dimitrios Kivotidis on state power, capital accumulation and democratic deficits. The second paper in the Marxism symposium by @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social and @pashukanist.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.org‘E pluribus unum......forum?’ A Marxist approach to the EU’s democratic deficit | European Law Open | Cambridge Core‘E pluribus unum......forum?’ A Marxist approach to the EU’s democratic deficit 173
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialRob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Next up in our (@nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social) Marxism and EU Law Symposium: Dimitrios Kivotidis takes on the EU's 'democratic deficit' . He shows us that beneath the liberal surface of this debate, lie the social relations of capitalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.org‘E pluribus unum......forum?’ A Marxist approach to the EU’s democratic deficit | European Law Open | Cambridge Core‘E pluribus unum......forum?’ A Marxist approach to the EU’s democratic deficit 073
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialMichelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Brilliant, devastating article on Israel’s appalling starvation policy by @jessicawhyte.bsky.social 055
Reposted by @nanoboss.bsky.socialMáiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Jobs at all levels at the new Loughborough Law department. Here is the prof. advertisement. Reader/SL/L all on jobs.ac.uk.jobs.ac.ukJobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.ukStart your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top... 1912
