The Law of Law

I am Dr Pravin Jeyaraj. In April 2011, as a PhD student, I organised a one-day methodology workshop on the dialectic method, The Law of Law: Dialectics in Critical and Socio-legal Research. My interest in dialectics started when I began reading Hegel as part of the research for my PhD in Law at University of Westminster’s Law and Theory Lab. The idea behind the workshop was to present a range of legal researchers covering the different readings of the dialectic method, not necessarily Hegel’s dialectic. Here was the result (well, sort of, there had to be some juggling on the day, due to speaker’s own schedules – this was my intended result).

All videos are the copyright of University of Westminster and accessed from the university’s Youtube page.

Property, Recognition and the Body

Brenna Bhandar – Hegel contra Hegel: Plasticity, Body and Form

Henrique Carvalho – Terrorism, Recognition and the Political Community

Alejandros Colas – The Dialectics of Territory in International Relations

 Postmodernism and Critique

Alan Norrie – Different dialectics, difference and legal judgment

Joseph Tanega – Why there is no forgetful functor in the law?

Alberto Toscano – Real Abstraction and the Dialectic

 The Dialectics of Humanity

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos – Critical Autopoiesis and the Infinity of Paradox

Kay Lalor – Making different differences: Representation, Rights and Sexuality