This year’s Critical Legal Conference is at The Open University, Milton Keynes, 6-8 September. The is regeneration, and as the conference webpage cites: “Drawing inspiration from the visions, strategies and conflicts that engendered the creation of Milton Keynes and The Open University at the end of the 1960s, and reflecting on recent conference themes at…
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Guess Who? The Law Behind your Favourite USS Strike Memes
Wondering where some of your favourite memes during the USS strike have come from? Who the creative mind behind the inspired ‘Do you Believe in Life after Work’ that has made its way up and down the country in the last few weeks? Anna, the law behind the memes! Well, it’s no other than the…
Lessons in Unionising the Future: The Art of Estrangement and Critical Pedagogy on the Picket Line
By Heather McKnight “Strangeness that does not betray and sell us has a wholly different effect. It makes the beholder look up; it seems artful, not artificial; it reveals its own quality in its otherness” Ernst Bloch – Alienation and Estranagement (1970) Last week I joined the Sussex picket of the national University and College…
Breaking Law’s Fourth Wall
Breaking Law’s Fourth Wall by Sean Mulcahy Law in the Limelight has been a series of workshops built in many ways on emerging legal performance scholarship,[1] exploring the relationship between theatre, performance and law. The third workshop in the series focused on the fourth wall, the invisible and imagined wall that exists between the audience…
Jack Tan’s Law in the Limelight Series published on the Art/Law Network Website
Developing insights on law through performance and theatre practice with Jack Tan’s Law in the Limelight series “Courts are heterotopic because society needs a space where a change of state or personhood happens: often quite severe and violent changes such as the removal of children, immigrants, refugees, incarceration and extradition.” Amy Linford, Architect and Participant…
‘Art Strike!’ with Art/Law Network & others Sussex UCU Strike Events 5 March 2018
‘Art Strike!’ with Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Dr Micheál O’Connell, Dr Eleftheria Lekakis, Art/Law Network & others 14.30 – 16.30 5 March, Mandela Hall, Falmer House Come and join us on the picket lines for a practical teach in/out on art strikes, the uses of art/law and radical pedagogy during the long crisis in higher education! FOR A REGULARLY…
Art/Law Network
Art/Law Network By Lucy Finchett-Maddock The Conscious Lawyer 2 2017 10-12 The Art/Law Network is a gathering of artists, lawyers, agitators, coming together to work and collaborate for change. Never before has there been such a call for social transformation, where individuals, practitioners, artists and activists of all backgrounds are seeking new and alternative ways…
Interview with Artist Jack Tan
Interview by Swastee Ranjan Imagine a court in which litigants sing their case and solve their dispute through song duels in the presence of a jury audience who decide the winner – Karaoke Court, an art performance led by Artist Jack Tan is precisely this but it would be a misnomer to think that it…
Law as Social Sculpture
Practicing the Legal Profession as a Social Sculptress by Isabel Añino Granados Madrid 17 May 2017 It is been a while since I had a first glimpse of how art and law are interconnected and how one can work in the field of law even in practical cases from an artistic perspective. To do so one…
Welcome to the new Art/Law Network Website
Welcome to the new Art/Law Network website. We hope it proves to be a creative, galvanising, and boundary-crossing space!
