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Legal Form Archive
This page charts our posts to date, providing a taxonomy of our interventions. As with any such archival map, it is but one among many possible ways of organizing our work. We invite you to use your imaginations and dive in.
State Theory Today
Chris O’Kane (here, here, and here) | Rob Hunter (here) | Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian (here) | Coel Kirkby (here and here) | Nate Holdren (here) | Kirstin Munro (here)
Also see Akbar Rasulov (here, here, and here)
Constitutionalism and State Power
Tarik Kochi (here) | Anton Jäger (here) | Camila Vergara (here, here, and here) | Rob Hunter (here, here, here, here, and here) | Marco Goldoni (here) | Bill Bowring (here) | Dimitrios Kivotidis (here) | Pablo Ciocchini and Stefanie Khoury (here) | Rafael Khachaturian (here)
Human Rights
Paul O’Connell (here) | Michael Fakhri (here and here) | Jon Piccini (here) | Nicole Landry (here and here) | Jessica Whyte (here)
Law in Labour
William Clare Roberts (here) | Matthew Dimick (here) | Claire Mummé (here)
Also see Alexis Cukier (here, here, and here) | Facundo C. Rocca (here, here, and here) | Eamonn Gallagher (here)
Beyond “Base” and “Superstructure”
Anandha Krishna Raj (here) | Nate Holdren (here) | Matthew Dimick (here) | Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter (here) | Matthew Dimick and Dom Taylor (here)
Colonialism and Displacement
Chris Szabla (here) | Jasmine Chorley (here) | Susan Dianne Brophy (here and here)
Legal Form, Social Constitution, and Social Reproduction
Nate Holdren (here) | Anna Lukina (here) | Igor Shoikhedbrod (here) | Liam McHugh-Russell (here) | Miriam Bak McKenna (here and here) | Tormod Otter Johansen (here)
Education and Class Power
Charalambos Kourondis (here) | Duygun Ruben, Fikri Buber, and Mahir Tamercan Ölmez (here) | David Backer (here)
On the International Front
Owen Holland (here) | Dimitris Kaltsonis (here) | Jai Vipra (here) | August H. Nimtz (here and here) | Pavlos Roufos (here and here) | Kailash Srinivasan (here) | Ivana Isailovic (here) | Adam Taylor (here) | Edoardo Stoppioni (here) | Eric Loefflad (here) | Christopher M. J. Boyd (here) | Alessandra Asteriti (here) | Richard Seymour (here)
Law and Class Struggle
Rafael Khachaturian (here) | Nick Bano (here) | Clyde W. Barrow (here) | Nate Holdren (here) | Jacob Blumenfeld (here) | Paul O’Connell (here) | Umut Özsu (here and here)
Law, Health, and Class Power
Tanzil Chowdhury (here) | Michael Heinrich (here) | Mike Davis (here) | Colin Leys (here)
Capital’s History
Jairus Banaji (here)
Critical Concepts in Marxist Legal Theory
Rafael Khachaturian on the state (here) | George Rigakos on security (here) | Dimitrios Kivotidis on dictatorship of the proletariat (here)
Reviews
Symposium on Igor Shoikhedbrod’s Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism (2019): Igor Shoikhedbrod on Amy Bartholomew, Christine Sypnowich, Mai Taha, and Dom Taylor (here) | Christine Sypnowich on Igor Shoikhedbrod (here) | Amy Bartholomew on Igor Shoikhedbrod (here) | Dom Taylor on Igor Shoikhedbrod (here) | Mai Taha on Igor Shoikhedbrod (here)
Symposium on Jessica Whyte’s The Morals of the Market (2019): Jessica Whyte on Eva Nanopoulos, Paul O’Connell, and Umut Özsu (here) | Eva Nanopoulos on Jessica Whyte (here) | Umut Özsu on Jessica Whyte (here) | Paul O’Connell on Jessica Whyte (here)
Aziz Rana on Christopher Tomlins (here) | Maria Tzanakopoulou on Zoe Adams (here) | Bill Bowring on Igor Shoikhedbrod (here) | Christopher Tomlins on Maïa Pal (here) | Jessica Whyte on Ntina Tzouvala (here) | Liam Midzain-Gobin on Nick Estes (here) | Ravi Malhotra on Honor Brabazon et al., Katharina Pistor, and Astra Taylor (here) | Rafael Khachaturian on Asad Haider (here) | Joshua Shaw on Mario Mieli (here) | Paul O’Connell on Samuel Moyn (here) | Stuart Schrader on Sidney L. Harring (here, here, and here) | Cyra Akila Choudhury on Cynthia Grant Bowman (here)
Interviews
Rob Hunter interviews Lisa Klingsporn and Christiane Wilke on Otto Kirchheimer (here and here)
Translations
“The Loss of Nicos Poulantzas: The Elusive Answer” — A Translation by Rafael Khachaturian (here) | “The Korean War and the Ontology of Intervention: Chen Tiqiang’s ‘Who Is Undermining International Law?’ (1950)” — A Translation by Ryan Mitchell (here)
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