'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.
In 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.
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Matthew Dimick wades into the debate on the political utility of 'checks and balances' in the era of Trump.
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Abby 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.
The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Ryan Breeden's translation of Karl Korsch's review/engagement with Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner.
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At @legalform.bsky.social, @mariethogersen.bsky.social discusses international law’s fetishistic character.
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‘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…
Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
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My piece, 'Trans Liberation and Law: Structure, Limits and Strategy after FWS', is available now.
It considers the legal route of struggle, examining the structural and material conditions that result in limits of such a strategy.
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I'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.
‘Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.’ Madhubala P and Gautam Bhat…
legalform.blog
‘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…
legalform.blog
‘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…
‘The answer to Trump is not fewer checks but more—the subordination of the presidency to the legislature, or even the abolition of the executive as a separate and “coequal” branch…
John Milios on the importance of addressing the issue of capitalist legal forms in a socialist society as a prerequisite for examining class conflicts and socioeconomic transformations in socialist…
‘[S]o-called “law,” even in its form … is merely another fetishistically distorted appearance of the same social realities that first appear—already in fetishized form—in the commodity (i.e.,…
legalform.blog
In 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...
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‘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…
