Book Review: Fleur Johns, Non-Legality in International Law – Unruly Law, University of Cambridge Press, 2013

Shaun McVeigh This book joins a growing literature that is concerned with the technical means by which relations of law are created and deployed. In part this literature is presented as ‘ethnographic’ in style but more often its strength comes from developing prudential and critical accounts of the roles and tactics of the offices and…

Book Review: Chris Butler’s Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City, Routledge, 2012

Shaun McVeigh Spatial Politics is published as part of Routledge’s Nomikoi critical legal thinkers series. It presents a law-sensitive account of the broad range of Henri Lefebvre’s scholarship. For some the body of Lefebvre’s work is best left to the history of Marxist scholarship in France. This would be a pity. Chris Butler offers an…