Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power

We are sharing a CfP of a Polish journal co-edited by a member of our centre:
📢 Call for Papers – Praktyka Teoretyczna
Special Issue: Dispossession by Law

We invite submissions for a special issue exploring how law operates as a tool of material and subjective dispossession under contemporary capitalism.

🔹 Material dispossession includes legal mechanisms that strip communities of land, resources, and commons, enabling modern forms of enclosure, privatisation, and extraction.

🔹 Subjective dispossession examines how law reshapes agency by restricting rights, limiting democratic participation, and criminalising resistance.

The issue focuses in particular on accumulation and dispossession during post-communist transformation, while also welcoming broader theoretical, historical, and empirical analyses.

💡 Suggested topics include:
• Colonial uses of terra nullius
• Case studies of dispossession by law
• Intellectual property & patent regimes
• Western legal theory and the legitimation of dispossession
• Law’s role in capitalist accumulation
• Labour law changes & erosion of workers’ rights

📄 The full CfP is available on the journal’s website (first link in comments).
🔎 Articles may be submitted in *English* or Polish.

Editors: Anna Piekarska, Małgorzata Damek
📬 Abstract deadline: 28 February 2026
✍️ Full article deadline: 30 June 2026
📘 Publication planned: June 2027

🔎 Publication guidelines are in the second link in the comments.

We’re delighted to announce two exciting new additions to the Nomos: Studies in Law, Culture, and Power series:

Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos: Herd Immunities, by William Watkin
https://www.routledge.com/Covid-Biopolitics-and-the-Suspension-of-the-Nomos-Herd-Immunities/Watkin/p/book/9781032888088

Law and the Exception: Towards a New Paradigm, by Gian-Giacomo Fusco and Przemislaw Tacik
https://www.routledge.com/Law-and-the-Exception-Towards-a-New-Paradigm/Fusco-Tacik/p/book/9781032790848

These works further enrich the series.
We're excited to see Nomos continue to evolve and thrive!

https://argumentation.law.muni.cz/

Argumentation 2025: Games of Law
International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law

October 31 – November 1

The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno.

The call for abstracts is extended to 10th August

Argumentation 2025: Games of Law | Argumentation Conference Brno | MUNI LAW International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law

As the Nomos conference draws to a close, it's impossible not to feel a mix of exhaustion and inspiration. We've spent these days in vital conversation, engaging the real, dissecting power.

This wasn’t just an academic gathering. It was a collective rehearsal for the future: one where we centre people over profit, and solidarity over spectacle. If the institutions won't save us, then we’ll keep building alternatives in the cracks, together.

Grateful for the comrades, organizers and thinkers, who made this space possible.

What a powerful gathering at Nomos Conference. Voices from the frontline, ideas that challenge the status quo, and a community rooted in justice and equity.

From organizing strategies to visionary panels. Here’s a glimpse into the energy we shared

German Staatsräson means deportation? Germany has joined other nation-states – such as the US and Greece – in the repression via deportation of political action against their respective

Cfp of the 4th Nomos Conference

Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital

6-7 June 2025 in Brno (Czech Republic)

The deadline [extended] 16th May

All details here: https://konference.law.muni.cz/content/cs/nomos/