1st Edition
Rights, Resistance and Critique The Legal Theory of Costas Douzinas
1. Thinking (Critically) as Friends and Neighbours
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Illan rua Wall
2. Costas Douzinas: Critical, Political, Institutional
Joanna Bourke
3. The Critical (Legal) Praxis of Costas Douzinas
Illan rua Wall
4. The Superfetation of Costas D
Peter Goodrich
5. Just Listening
Gilbert Leung
6. Wild Mercury Text: Douzinas….Bentham…De-Ontology
Adam D. Gearey
7. Reflections on Postmodern Truth and Post-Truth
Elena Loizidou
8. The Very Short Story of Douzinas’ Law and Images (That Awaits Its Rebuttal)
Ozan Kamiloglu
9. Towards a Legal Phenomenology of Sounds: Douzinas’ Legal Aesthetics Beyond the Image
Julia Chryssostalis
10. The Material Douzinas
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
11. The Paradox of Non-Human Rights
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa
12. The Errancy of Rights and the Refusal of the Law
Patrick Hanafin
13. The Electrical Dialectic
Cormac Deane
14. From Anomie to Antigone: A Retrospective on the Right to Resistance in the Work of Costas Douzinas
Ceylan Begüm Yıldız
15. A Legend
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
16. ‘Occupy Everything’: The Critique of Human Rights Meets the Age of Resistance in Brazil
Moniza Rizzini Ansari
17. The Right to Bury the Dead: Alterity, Hope and Revolution
Marcus V. A. B. De Matos
18. Interview With Costas Douzinas: Critical Legal Studies, Resistance and the Crisis
Daniel Matthews
Biography
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa is a Senior Lecturer in Law and a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests range from the globalisation of Western legal forms and the colonial history of international law to emerging developments in human rights and environmental law, including transitional justice in South America and the growing recognition of legal personhood and rights for non-human beings. His work draws on philosophy, critical theory, anthropology and jurisprudence to explore these themes from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. He is the founding Co-Director of the Forum on Decentering the Human, Co-Director of the Queen Mary Centre for International Law (CeILa) and founding Co-Director of the Group of Critical Studies in Politics, Law, and Society (PoDeS).
Illan rua Wall is a Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the University of Galway, School of Law. Until 2023, he was Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. He is an editor of the blog criticallegalthinking.com, the open-access publisher Counterpress and a managing editor of the journal Law & Critique. He works on questions of protest and disorder, using contemporary critical legal theory.
