Matilda Arvidsson
Associate professor (docent) of international law, LLD 2017 (Lund), LLM 2003 (Lund), BS Lund (2001: political science). I am a Doctor of International Law, holding a assistant senior lecturer position in law and theory at the Department of Law, Gothenburg. My research interests are interdisciplinary and include issues of international law, theory and history, as well as AI and law.
Address: Vargatan 9
21218 Malmo
matildaarvidsson@gmail.com
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21218 Malmo
matildaarvidsson@gmail.com
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feminine’) as one way to do feminist legal translation. It discusses the
importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time as a reflection
both on what law as well as what the self is or can be. To write one self through
écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for
the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. Drawing on Yoriko Otomo’s
feminist legal scholarship, I show that écriture feminine writes the world
differently through the writing of the self; something which is urgently needed in
a time of, as Anna Grear puts it, ‘necrotic, predatory imperative of Euro-centric
petro-capitalism and rampant industrial consumerism’. Legal scholarship has
often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that
has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is
rarely explicitly part of contemporary critical legal scholars’ efforts. In this text,
however, I argue that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is necessary
to contemporary legal scholarship in its turn to new materialism, tech and AI:
The feminist translation, transformation, transgression and translactation in
écriture feminine interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in
the world such legal scholarship tries to make sense of and rework.
feminine’) as one way to do feminist legal translation. It discusses the
importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time as a reflection
both on what law as well as what the self is or can be. To write one self through
écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for
the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. Drawing on Yoriko Otomo’s
feminist legal scholarship, I show that écriture feminine writes the world
differently through the writing of the self; something which is urgently needed in
a time of, as Anna Grear puts it, ‘necrotic, predatory imperative of Euro-centric
petro-capitalism and rampant industrial consumerism’. Legal scholarship has
often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that
has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is
rarely explicitly part of contemporary critical legal scholars’ efforts. In this text,
however, I argue that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is necessary
to contemporary legal scholarship in its turn to new materialism, tech and AI:
The feminist translation, transformation, transgression and translactation in
écriture feminine interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in
the world such legal scholarship tries to make sense of and rework.
ONLINE REGISTRATION AND A PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2019.
The conference is an opportunity to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between scholars, artists, activists, planners and others who work within the diverse field of urban creativity. The conference is hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Division of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University.
We will thus begin our presentation at the Law and Art workshop in Copenhagen by reflecting on some of the experiences and ideas derived from our stream at the Critical Legal Conference. We will briefly discuss some of the papers which were submitted to our stream in order to elucidate on the variety of topics which fall under the very broad notion of art and cultural practice in urban space. Subsequently, we will propose that the idea (and ideal) of spatial justice may be an interesting way of thinking artistic and cultural practices together with law justice and contestation in urban spaces. We will present a number of concrete examples of artistic expressions in public space which can be related to the idea(l) of spatial justice and which also actualise different juridical considerations in relation to the space which they inhabit.
differently through the writing of the self; something which is urgently needed in a time of, as Anna Grear puts it, ‘necrotic, predatory imperative of Euro-centric petro-capitalism and rampant industrial consumerism’. Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly part of contemporary critical legal scholars’ efforts. In this text, however, I argue that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is necessary to contemporary legal scholarship in its turn to new materialism, tech and AI: The feminist translation, transformation, transgression and translactation in écriture feminine interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world such legal scholarship tries to make sense of and rework.
Recent social and political developments, including the Brexit referendum result, the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and Poland, as well as the political climate in the rest of Europe and beyond, have all underlined the topicality of the relationship between democracy and popular sovereignty. What is ‘the people’? What is the popular sovereignty that supposedly underlies all democratic regimes? When does democratic politics become ‘populistic’? Is ‘populistic’ politics always necessarily anti-democratic, and if so, why? Is a ‘progressive’ variant of populism possible? How does one oppose anti-democratic populistic tendencies with democratic means? Is democracy a value that can even justify exceptional means? ‘The People’: Democracy, Populism, and the Constituent Popular Sovereign, addresses these and related questions on the troubled relationship between democracy and ‘the people’ from the
angels of constitutional theory, political philosophy, history and law.
Convenor: Matilda Arvidsson
Chair: Markus Gunneflo
Discussant: Ioannis Kalpouzos
My contribution to this discussion is a shift in focus from this particular kind of ‘legality’ (as only refereeing to the contemporary IHL framework) to instead consider the authority exercised by the CPA within the broader context of right and legitimate authority. To this effect I ask what kind of provisional authority the CPA exercised in Iraq, on which grounds, pursuant to which criteria, and to what ends?
Often referred to as a historical predecessor to contemporary international humanitarian law the Lieber Code has received little attention as a prevailing source of the laws and practices of international armed conflicts of today. However, in this seminar, the Lieber Code is read as the legal framework through which the occupying powers in Iraq sought to frame the legality of its oscillation between exercising sovereign authority and acting as a non-sovereign authority of occupied territory in Iraq. Moreover, the Lieber Code’s prevalence in American military handbooks and literature as both the origins of the international laws of armed conflict and as a source of the contemporary law and practice of warfare indicates that the Lieber Code is far from an antiquated code primarily interesting for historical purposes. Drawing on recent debates on the ‘turn to history’ in international law the seminar puts Anne Orford’s argument on international law’s anachronism to use, an argument well received for its potential as we revisit international law and its histories for critical ends. Few scholars, however, have examined how anachronism appear in contemporary international legal practice: this, in contrast, is a task for this seminar.
Based on Matilda Arvidsson’s close readings of the laws and policies of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of occupied Iraq and contemporary international law and practice of belligerent occupation the seminar foregrounds how the normative force of international law’s many pasts continues to operate in our present times and conditions.
With the vast environmental devastation being caused by climate change, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by international legal actors and the need for international law to face up to its colonial past, international law needs to change. But in regulating and preserving a stable global order in which states act as its main subjects, the traditional sources of international law – international legal statutes, customary international law, historical precedents and general principles of law – create a framework that slows down its capacity to act on contemporary challenges, and to imagine futures yet to come. In response, this collection maintains that posthuman theory can be used to better address the challenges faced by contemporary international law. Covering a wide array of contemporary topics – including environmental law, the law of the sea, colonialism, human rights, conflict and the impact of science and technology – it is the first book to bring new and emerging research on posthuman theory and international law together into one volume.
This book’s posthuman engagement with central international legal debates, prefaced by the leading scholar in the field of posthuman theory, provides a perfect resource for students and scholars in international law, as well as critical and socio-legal theorists and others with interests in posthuman thought, technology, colonialism and ecology.