There are limits, disciplinary or otherwise, to how legal knowledge is perceived and communicated outside—to people and structures that do not have compatible receptors for receiving and processing such knowledge. The lack of familiarity with the tools of knowledge production and the norms of functioning compounds the difficulties of perception and communication. By these, I …
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Resilience and the Law
I belong to a small minority of legal scholars that do transdisciplinary work (as opposed to less intriguing interdisciplinary work). My work on law, political economy, colonialism, and environmental and climate justice tends to surprise people, even within my discipline. I find it useful to call myself interdisciplinary so that I can quarrel with all …
Justice and the Law: Estrangement and Affection
Sometimes, one wonders which one of us has our back turned to the world. Justice might be blindfolded in the associational space afforded to it in the popular imagination. Iustitia stands with her eyes forced shut, with a glorious sword, which only she knows how to wield well. Sometimes, Prudence lingers around with her snake …
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Defiant Ecologies 