As part of our attempt to ‘reboot’ the research culture of the law school with the help of a more socio-legal approach, we set out to go through Alain Supiot’s book Homo Juridicus (Supiot 2007) in a reading group. Originally I could see three different motives for doing so. Continue reading “Alain Supiot’s ‘dogmatism’”
Constitutional spaces
Constitutions have a multifaceted relationship with spatiality. In addition to an overabundant use of spatial metaphors (e.g. ‘constitutional architecture’ or ‘constitutional design’ as depicting horizontal and vertical power relations), I can imagine at least three perspectives worth investigating. Continue reading “Constitutional spaces”
Bits and bobs in a framework
So neither norm nor fact, neither law nor politics, but the tension between the two in an in-between zone. Continue reading “Bits and bobs in a framework”
An early attempt at consolidation
A month has passed, and my intentions of blogging on work have, perhaps, not borne all the fruit that I originally hoped for. I could bullet-point a long list of valid excuses but won’t. Continue reading “An early attempt at consolidation”