By Bernard E. Harcourt The night of October 16, 2011, twelve University of Chicago graduate students were arrested at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park, downtown Chicago. Handcuffed and manhandled, they were transported in police vans to stations in… Continue Reading
By Amna A. Akbar In the late twentieth century, critical legal theorists recognized law as politics and understood law not as superstructure but a terrain of struggle in the way that Nicos Poulantzas had insisted in State, Power, and Socialism decades… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt It is a privilege to welcome Amna Akbar, Derecka Purnell, and Cornel West to the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought to revisit and rethink Professor West’s landmark article on the role of law, of the… Continue Reading