Illan wall
@illanwall.bsky.social
Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.
Brilliant, sharp incisive criticism of the new Garda Powers Bill from Cian Ó Concubhair: the absence of explicit powers to record racial data in particular is such an important point: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
New Garda powers bill could conceal abuses
Gardaí can consistently deny racial profiling because there is no data on who is stopped and searched — but the new powers bill doesn't allow this data to be collected. Why, asks Cian Ó Concubhair
www.irishexaminer.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Brilliant, sharp incisive criticism of the new Garda Powers Bill from Cian Ó Concubhair: the absence of explicit powers to record racial data in particular is such an important point: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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A wonderful way to remember the work and intellectual contribution of Emilios, who sadly passed away this week. The entire Legal Theory community in Edinburgh mourns the loss of an incredibly kind colleague and friend, who will be sorely missed.
Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
criticallegalthinking.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
A wonderful way to remember the work and intellectual contribution of Emilios, who sadly passed away this week. The entire Legal Theory community in Edinburgh mourns the loss of an incredibly kind colleague and friend, who will be sorely missed.
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Emilios has gone way too soon. I have very warm memories of the many encounters with him, either in the Old College or on the basketball court. When Emilios was in the room, you couldn't not notice him. My love to his family and many, many friends
Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
criticallegalthinking.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Emilios has gone way too soon. I have very warm memories of the many encounters with him, either in the Old College or on the basketball court. When Emilios was in the room, you couldn't not notice him. My love to his family and many, many friends
Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
criticallegalthinking.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
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Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Very excited for the next Critical Legal Conference, this year being hosted by Westminster Uni. We have this teaser of the theme: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/03/c...
CLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative
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February 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Very excited for the next Critical Legal Conference, this year being hosted by Westminster Uni. We have this teaser of the theme: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/03/c...
So excited to be republishing Brian Massumi's most recent post on affective politics in the US, in particular focusing in on norms - so particularly important for a critical legal audience: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/29/n...
Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly
It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:15 AM
So excited to be republishing Brian Massumi's most recent post on affective politics in the US, in particular focusing in on norms - so particularly important for a critical legal audience: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/29/n...
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
criticallegalthinking.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
criticallegalthinking.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally
criticallegalthinking.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...
Now for something slightly different: Hegel on international law, intervention, war criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/26/o...
One’s own morality as the highest court: A variation on Hegel’s concept of international law
Whether international law constitutes an independent legal domain endowed with sanctioning power with regard to its subjects is a question that has
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January 26, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Now for something slightly different: Hegel on international law, intervention, war criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/26/o...
Next up in the Critical Legal Thinking series on neo-imperialism and the brutal and slow collapse of American hegemony is Shahin Nasiri, exploring the current round of protests in Iran and the way they are situated geopolitically: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/21/i...
Iran’s Uprising: Between Clerical Violence and Neo-colonial Aggression
None The beginning of 2026 marked yet another human tragedy for Iranian society. In January, hundreds of thousands of Iranian protesters took to the
criticallegalthinking.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Next up in the Critical Legal Thinking series on neo-imperialism and the brutal and slow collapse of American hegemony is Shahin Nasiri, exploring the current round of protests in Iran and the way they are situated geopolitically: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/21/i...
Continuing our series, today Stewart Motha explores the relations of dispossession and colonisation in the scramble for Greenland: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession
When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S
criticallegalthinking.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Continuing our series, today Stewart Motha explores the relations of dispossession and colonisation in the scramble for Greenland: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
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We are excited to announce Elisa Loncón Antileo and Nicholas Blomley as our keynote speakers for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography. Learn more about these great leaders on our conference page @ www.clg.place
CLG Place
The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
We are excited to announce Elisa Loncón Antileo and Nicholas Blomley as our keynote speakers for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography. Learn more about these great leaders on our conference page @ www.clg.place
Continuing our series on contemporary US aggression, Christine Schwobel Patel explores the Greenland crisis: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...
Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place
Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers
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January 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Continuing our series on contemporary US aggression, Christine Schwobel Patel explores the Greenland crisis: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...
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Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
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Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Is Galway hostile to pedestrians?
There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of someone driving through Galway in 1965. The car drives along Bridge Street and Mainguard Street, before turning onto Shop street.
www.advertiser.ie
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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@illanwall.bsky.social is right.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
Absolutely spot on. We need to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists first and foremost, followed by public transport, and lastly cars, in the city centre.
The future is less cars not more roads.
The result will be a better city, with cleaner air, less noise pollution, and a healthier populace.
The future is less cars not more roads.
The result will be a better city, with cleaner air, less noise pollution, and a healthier populace.
Encouraging people to walk in the city centre is crucial to reducing congestion, improving accessibility and increasing the number of residents and tourists who want to spend time in the city centre, Dr Illan Wall writes www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@illanwall.bsky.social is right.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
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Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Remembering Joe Hill on the 110th anniversary of his murder by the state of Utah.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’
‘Intimidation’ includes children being told ‘go home’ and witnessing parents being called derogatory names
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!
Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.
The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions
The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.
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More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
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NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
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October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...
Scenes of Disappearance
The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...
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I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens
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The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
Tenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisation
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
www.irishlegal.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.