Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Bernard E. Harcourt
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Nitrogen update: Judge Marks in Montgomery denies the State of Alabama’s application to stay her permanent injunction against nitrogen gas while the state appeals. The equities are clearly against the state.
Bernard E. Harcourt
Critique in times of crisis: Dipesh Chakrabarty, David Owen, Dawn Herrera Helphand, and more on the pressing task of critique today, open access essays here at Foucault Studies
Issue 39, Spring 2026: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56718
Ongoing updates on the nitrogen gas execution method litigation: apnews.com/article/alab...
Preparing to present at the Collège de France with Fadi Bardawil, Linda Zerilli, Ann Stoler, Didier Fassin, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Michał Kozłowski, and Martin Saar (left to right). Program ranging from the prison to decolonialism and the revolution in Iran www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
Brilliant lecture by Étienne Balibar on Marx and Hegel and the inversions that they operated at Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and @ehess.fr and @lab-iris.bsky.social. Video here:
youtu.be/BaTqV04SR0I?... | More information here: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/
Political Concepts at the Sorbonne: Join us on May 29 and May 30 for discussions with Emily APTER, Etienne BALIBAR, Barbara CASSIN, Eric FASSIN, Michel FEHER, Judith REVEL & Ann L. STOLER, among others. Info and SRVP here: isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/p... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
Nitrogen gas asphyxiation as a method of execution was just held UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the federal court in Montgomery, Alabama, relying on the Eleventh Circuit. This is unprecedented and remarkable and right!!
If you are in Paris this week, join us on Tuesday May 26 at 4:30PM at the EHESS for a seminar on *Lacan and Hegel* with Professor Björn Quiring of the University of Dublin. We will be in salle 3.07, Centre de colloques, Campus Condorcet, 93300 Aubervilliers | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
Étienne Balibar, "Inverting sentences from Hegel": Join us on June 2, 2026, at the Columbia Paris Global Center for Hegel 13/13 with Balibar, info here: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/. ESSAY by BALIBAR here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2026/05/11/e... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
A federal judge has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.
