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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.

We demand their immediate release.

Read our statement here 👇👇

ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jul 12

"It is tricky to write this piece, however, for another reason. Mainly because, if I’m not careful, it could land me in prison."

Tanzil Chowdhury's reflectons on the Proscription of Palestine Action for Critical Legal Thinking

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

Reflections on the Proscription of Palestine Action

VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti Remember that we are living, writing, waking up, sleeping, lamenting, breathing, resisting, and working amid

criticallegalthinking.com

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jul 12

"It is tricky to write this piece, however, for another reason. Mainly because, if I’m not careful, it could land me in prison."

Tanzil Chowdhury's reflectons on the Proscription of Palestine Action for Critical Legal Thinking

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

Reflections on the Proscription of Palestine Action

VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti Remember that we are living, writing, waking up, sleeping, lamenting, breathing, resisting, and working amid

criticallegalthinking.com

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jun 27

SCREENING: “To Kill A War Machine”, a documentary about @palaction.bsky.social by ‪@rainbow-collective.bsky.social‬

⏰2 July, 18;30-21:00,
📍BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne
🎟 free, but register for access: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-kill-a-...
🤝 @cclas1.bsky.social

poster for To Kill A War Machine: a screening of a documentary about Palestine Action

BLOC Cinema (ArtsOne), Mile End Road, London E1 4PA
1 July, 18:30-21:00
FREE registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-kill-a-war-machine-tickets-1437236636469?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jun 4

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social )

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Legal workers and the workplaces of law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this piece for Borderlands, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law' with David Scott

Joined by @ruthfletcher.bsky.social and Tanzil Chowdhury as discussants.

Register here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

'The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law'

Staff Work-in-Progress session: 'The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law'

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law' with David Scott

Joined by @ruthfletcher.bsky.social and Tanzil Chowdhury as discussants.

Register here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

'The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law'

Staff Work-in-Progress session: 'The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law'

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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oxfordcsls.bsky.social @oxfordcsls.bsky.social · Jun 4

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌍 Borderlands section, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.

📖 Read the full post here:

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Legal workers and the workplaces of law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this piece for Borderlands, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jun 4

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social )

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Legal workers and the workplaces of law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this piece for Borderlands, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · May 16

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July.

We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · May 19

Can't wait to read these essays in detail, essays from the legal workers inquiry about legal work and organising.

Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 13

NEW BOOK: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY

Read the first ever collection of essays from legal workers about legal work & organsing (Tanzil Chowdhury @jamie_woodcock eds.)

Download for FREE (or buy hardcopies with all proceeds going to Notes From Below)
notesfrombelow.org/issue/legal-...

Legal Workers Inquiry (Book)

The May 2025 issue of Notes From Below

notesfrombelow.org

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 13

NEW BOOK: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY

Read the first ever collection of essays from legal workers about legal work & organsing (Tanzil Chowdhury @jamie_woodcock eds.)

Download for FREE (or buy hardcopies with all proceeds going to Notes From Below)
notesfrombelow.org/issue/legal-...

Legal Workers Inquiry (Book)

The May 2025 issue of Notes From Below

notesfrombelow.org

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 13

**TONIGHT**

Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Feb 10

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri

📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London
🗓️ Thursday, 13th May
⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Register here:
tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...

The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 13

NEW BOOK: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY

Read the first ever collection of essays from legal workers about legal work & organsing (Tanzil Chowdhury @jamie_woodcock eds.)

Download for FREE (or buy hardcopies with all proceeds going to Notes From Below)
notesfrombelow.org/issue/legal-...

Legal Workers Inquiry (Book)

The May 2025 issue of Notes From Below

notesfrombelow.org

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 12

Thanks to @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and all those who came this evening. Details of where you can get the book to follow...

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · May 12

**TONIGHT**

Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are launching our book LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY in London, hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 12th May, 6.30-8.00pm

Register here
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

Free Book Launch- Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain | Garden Court Chambers

Dr Tanzil Chowdhury and Dr Jamie Woodcock are editors of a collection of essays entitled Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing From Across The Sector In Britain, the culmination of a project by Notes ...

gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 7

We're OFF! First up: Bruce Robin from @unison.org.uk talking about the #MercerCase and the #SupremeCourt case.

#LawyeringForWorkersRights

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Apr 29

Coorganising with QMUnison and @cclas1.bsky.social: Lawyering for Workers' Rights

7 May, 5-7pm, @qmul.ac.uk Mile End Campus & on zoom. Free, but register for your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #TradeUnionism

lawyering for workers' rights: an evening co-hosted by QMUCU, QMUnison, and the Centre for Law and Society in a global context
Wednesday 7 May 5-7pm
Law 313 QMUL Mile End campus or online

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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · Mar 6

New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal!

Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office.

Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire.

cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core

The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion - Volume 25 Issue 8

cambridge.org

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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · Apr 23

To all London colleagues...

On 13 May, Alessandra Mezzadri will give the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Law & Society in a Global Context @QMUL:

The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory.

Guaranteed to be 🔥🔥🔥. Details below.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clsgc-annu...

CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...

The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Apr 29

Coorganising with QMUnison and @cclas1.bsky.social: Lawyering for Workers' Rights

7 May, 5-7pm, @qmul.ac.uk Mile End Campus & on zoom. Free, but register for your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #TradeUnionism

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are launching our book LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY in London, hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 12th May, 6.30-8.00pm

Register here
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

Free Book Launch- Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain | Garden Court Chambers

Dr Tanzil Chowdhury and Dr Jamie Woodcock are editors of a collection of essays entitled Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing From Across The Sector In Britain, the culmination of a project by Notes ...

gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · Apr 26

So looking forward to this at QMUL on Tuesday 13th May! Sure to be a tour de force in feminist and Marxist thought as informed by the plural radical analyses of social reproduction in the Global South

Some reading for context here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Garden Court Chambers @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social · Apr 24

📢 FREE BOOK LAUNCH - 'Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain' 📖⚖️

🗓️ Monday 12 May, 6.30pm

Join editors Dr Tanzil Chowdhury & Dr Jamie Woodcock to discuss future challenges for workers in the #LegalSector, with Sreyan Chatterjee.

Book now 🔽
tinyurl.com/36syh5yd

Event poster for the book launch 'Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain' on Monday 12 May 2025, 6:30-8pm, featuring speakers Dr. Tanzil Chowdhury, Dr. Jamie Woodcock and Sreyan Chatterjee.

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are launching our book LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY in London, hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 12th May, 6.30-8.00pm

Register here
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

Free Book Launch- Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain | Garden Court Chambers

Dr Tanzil Chowdhury and Dr Jamie Woodcock are editors of a collection of essays entitled Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing From Across The Sector In Britain, the culmination of a project by Notes ...

gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thanks to @legalactiongroup.bsky.social for featuring our LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY book with @notesfrombelow.bsky.social on the front cover.

lag.org.uk/article/2167...

The students move on but the clients come back

What does the first-ever workers inquiry into the UK's legal sector reveal about morale and working conditions among the profession’s most junior members?

lag.org.uk

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