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  • “It Is a Nomos Very Different from the Law”: on Anarchy and the Law 

    Marneros, Christos (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The relationship between anarchy and the law is, to say the least, an uncomfortable one. The so-called ‘classical’ anarchist position – in all its heterogeneous tendencies – is, usually, characterised by a total opposition ...
  • In Search of Originality in Central and Eastern European Legal Culture Culture(s). 4th Annual CEENELS Conference: Legal Innovativeness in Central and Eastern Europe, Moscow, 14–15 June 2019 

    Szymaniec, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The paper describes the debates which took place during the 4th Annual CEENELS Conference (Moscow, 14–15 June 2019). The aim of the conference was to analyse the issue of legal innovativeness in Central and Eastern Europe, ...
  • Notes on Bio-History: Michel Foucault and the Political Economy of Health 

    Chiaramonte, Xenia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    In October 1974, Foucault gave three lectures in Rio de Janeiro on the archeology of the cure. This piece will comment on the first two, published a few years later in France with the original titles: Crise de la médicine ...
  • Pandemic, Exception and the Law: Notes on the Shattered Nomos of Europe 

    Cercel, Cosmin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    In this article I propose a critical evaluation of the current European politico-legal landscape that unfolds under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. My aim is to offer an analysis of the symbolic status of legality ...
  • Law in Times of the Pandemic 

    Szymaniec, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The essay tries to show that the legal response to a new threat, such as an unknown disease, is an outcome of many factors, including social attitudes and public sentiment. This is demonstrated by the example of regulations ...
  • The Necessity of Legal Typologies in Crisis and Emergency 

    Johansen, Tormod Otter (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    Legal analysis necessarily uses concepts, distinctions and typologies. These tools suffer challenges when the object of analysis or application is a crisis or emergency. The article looks into two examples of legal typologies ...
  • Lockdown: A Commentary 

    Fusco, Gian Giacomo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The Collins dictionary has elected lockdown as its word-of-the-yearn 2020. Defined as “the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction and access to public spaces”, decided by governments “to mitigate ...
  • The COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture 

    Mercescu, Alexandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis to be eventually developed in a future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on the part ...
  • Legal Form, COVID and the Political: Notes Towards a Critique of the Corpus Iuris Pandemici 

    Mańko, Rafał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The scholarly analysis and critique of law always take place under circumstances of scarcity of academic resources. At any given moment, the number of academic jurists mastering a given legal system and being capable of ...
  • The Blizzard of the World: COVID-19 and the Last Say of the State of Exception 

    Tacik, Przemysław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The paper aims to grasp the COVID-19 pandemic as a socio-political catastrophe in the Benjaminian sense. As argued in the article, the scope and nature of the COVID-19 crisis eludes us due to our closeness to its inner ...
  • Introduction: The Return of the Exception 

    Mańko, Rafał; Tacik, Przemysław; Fusco, Gian Giacomo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)
    The history of the 20th century, and more recently the two-decades long war on terror, have taught us the lesson that the normalisation of the state of exception (intended here as the proliferation of legal instruments ...