Illan Rua Wall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 317400 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Illan Rua Wall |
| NOMBRES | Illan Rua |
| APELLIDO | Wall |
| FIRMA | WALL I R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6095-7571 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Legal Observation at Protest
Drawing on the experiences of developing the Irish Network of Legal Observers, this article explores the role of the legal observer in upholding the contemporary right of protest. It develops a categorization of different types of legal observer projects and analyses the international protections available to human rights defenders. Ultimately, the article argues that the legal observer plays an essential human rights function, particularly when …
Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus
Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this article I use it to frame the field of public order and the internal security apparatus. The internal security apparatus names those elements of the state which ensure a docile populace. This article suggests that internal security should be considered as an affective apparatus, arguing that …
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third, and essentially important, dimension to sovereignty. Law, politics and aesthetics all play equ…
The right to protest
The slogan 'defend the right to protest' has proved popular in recent years, connecting a wide variety of organisations, activists and institutional actors.But beneath this apparent agreement of left and centre-left groups, we find quite a significant difference of views over the meaning of the 'right to protest', and what activities it might protect.This article sets out to critically engage with the way that an institutional human rights discou…
No Justice, No Peace
Instead of thinking of 'public order' as the type of power that police deploy to manage disorder, this article suggests that we understand it as a set of background affects. The problem of analysing these affects is that (aside from moments of unrest) the majority of the populace is anaesthetised to them. Most people take the public feelings of calm predictability for granted. Crucially, however, the everyday management of public order does not a…
Legal Aesthesis
Atmospheres of Protest
Commentators often remark upon the “festive” or “tense” atmosphere of major protests. This seems to signify the general outlook of the protestors or the relations between them and the police. It signals the potential of the protests to unfold in a peaceful, joyous manner or with violence. While “festive” and “tense” are useful ways of thinking about protest atmospheres, they are often used in a highly reductive manner. The literature on atmospher…
Catastrophe
The Ordinary Affects of Law
The article examines the affective dynamics of law in the everyday. It insists upon the importance of 'the background' for thinking about law. In the everyday cut and thrust of daily life, law tends to fade into the background. It becomes unobtrusive, functioning from the background by structuring the capacity to act. In other words, it functions affectively. Key to law's functioning is its ability to also move out from the background in certain …
Policing Atmospheres
In 1983, the British police adopted their first public order policing manual, laying the foundations of a secretive archive. The manuals and training materials produced in the intervening years provide an untapped repository of affective thought. This article reads the 1983 and 2016 training materials for their atmospheric insights. It develops the term police 'atmotechnics' to describe interventions that are specifically designed to affect the c…
Kathryn McNeilly
Notes on an ‘‘Open’’ Constituent Power
This article examines critical responses to the question of constituent power. Rather than a closed, meaning-giving moment, which originates the constitutional structure, the article looks at the various ways in which constituent power can be viewed as ‘‘open’’ and anti-underdetermined. It looks at two issues in particular: the ‘‘subject’’ of constituent power, and the nature of the ‘‘power’’ involved. The article concludes with the suggestion th…
The Occupation of Public Space in Bogotá
The number of people internally displaced by the conflict in Colombia is intensifying drastically. As a result, the question of the political agency of the displaced in public space is acquiring increasing importance. This article investigates three constructions of public space through the struggle of internally displaced people (IDPs) against invisibility and depoliticization. Having introduced the problem of displacement in Colombia, the artic…
Tunisia and the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus
On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights
Human rights law inscribes a relation between the political and suffering. This relation is twofold, it facilitates the radical aspect of human rights’ struggle against domination, but at the same time seems to reduce the human rights horizon to the short-term philantropism of humanitarianism. We will argue that this twofold structure is crucial to understanding human rights. We can begin to imagine a different, non-metaphysical, human rights thr…
Duress, International Criminal Law and Literature
This paper uses parallels between Sophocles’ Theban Plays and the House of Lords decision in Dudley and Stephens, to question the decision in the Erdemović case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. One should distinguish between causal, moral and criminal responsibility. If a man who commits a crime, not by the action of his free will, is to be found guilty, we are essentially equating causal responsibility with c…
Policing Atmospheres
In 1983, the British police adopted their first public order policing manual, laying the foundations of a secretive archive. The manuals and training materials produced in the intervening years provide an untapped repository of affective thought. This article reads the 1983 and 2016 training materials for their atmospheric insights. It develops the term police 'atmotechnics' to describe interventions that are specifically designed to affect the c…
No Justice, No Peace
Instead of thinking of 'public order' as the type of power that police deploy to manage disorder, this article suggests that we understand it as a set of background affects. The problem of analysing these affects is that (aside from moments of unrest) the majority of the populace is anaesthetised to them. Most people take the public feelings of calm predictability for granted. Crucially, however, the everyday management of public order does not a…
The Occupation of Public Space in Bogotá
The number of people internally displaced by the conflict in Colombia is intensifying drastically. As a result, the question of the political agency of the displaced in public space is acquiring increasing importance. This article investigates three constructions of public space through the struggle of internally displaced people (IDPs) against invisibility and depoliticization. Having introduced the problem of displacement in Colombia, the artic…
The right to protest
The slogan 'defend the right to protest' has proved popular in recent years, connecting a wide variety of organisations, activists and institutional actors.But beneath this apparent agreement of left and centre-left groups, we find quite a significant difference of views over the meaning of the 'right to protest', and what activities it might protect.This article sets out to critically engage with the way that an institutional human rights discou…
Tunisia and the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third, and essentially important, dimension to sovereignty. Law, politics and aesthetics all play equ…
Legal Aesthesis
Notes on an ‘‘Open’’ Constituent Power
This article examines critical responses to the question of constituent power. Rather than a closed, meaning-giving moment, which originates the constitutional structure, the article looks at the various ways in which constituent power can be viewed as ‘‘open’’ and anti-underdetermined. It looks at two issues in particular: the ‘‘subject’’ of constituent power, and the nature of the ‘‘power’’ involved. The article concludes with the suggestion th…
On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights
Human rights law inscribes a relation between the political and suffering. This relation is twofold, it facilitates the radical aspect of human rights’ struggle against domination, but at the same time seems to reduce the human rights horizon to the short-term philantropism of humanitarianism. We will argue that this twofold structure is crucial to understanding human rights. We can begin to imagine a different, non-metaphysical, human rights thr…
Duress, International Criminal Law and Literature
This paper uses parallels between Sophocles’ Theban Plays and the House of Lords decision in Dudley and Stephens, to question the decision in the Erdemović case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. One should distinguish between causal, moral and criminal responsibility. If a man who commits a crime, not by the action of his free will, is to be found guilty, we are essentially equating causal responsibility with c…
Duress, International Criminal Law and Literature
This paper uses parallels between Sophocles’ Theban Plays and the House of Lords decision in Dudley and Stephens, to question the decision in the Erdemović case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. One should distinguish between causal, moral and criminal responsibility. If a man who commits a crime, not by the action of his free will, is to be found guilty, we are essentially equating causal responsibility with c…
On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights
Human rights law inscribes a relation between the political and suffering. This relation is twofold, it facilitates the radical aspect of human rights’ struggle against domination, but at the same time seems to reduce the human rights horizon to the short-term philantropism of humanitarianism. We will argue that this twofold structure is crucial to understanding human rights. We can begin to imagine a different, non-metaphysical, human rights thr…
The Occupation of Public Space in Bogotá
The number of people internally displaced by the conflict in Colombia is intensifying drastically. As a result, the question of the political agency of the displaced in public space is acquiring increasing importance. This article investigates three constructions of public space through the struggle of internally displaced people (IDPs) against invisibility and depoliticization. Having introduced the problem of displacement in Colombia, the artic…
Tunisia and the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus
Notes on an ‘‘Open’’ Constituent Power
This article examines critical responses to the question of constituent power. Rather than a closed, meaning-giving moment, which originates the constitutional structure, the article looks at the various ways in which constituent power can be viewed as ‘‘open’’ and anti-underdetermined. It looks at two issues in particular: the ‘‘subject’’ of constituent power, and the nature of the ‘‘power’’ involved. The article concludes with the suggestion th…
Kathryn McNeilly
Catastrophe
The Ordinary Affects of Law
The article examines the affective dynamics of law in the everyday. It insists upon the importance of 'the background' for thinking about law. In the everyday cut and thrust of daily life, law tends to fade into the background. It becomes unobtrusive, functioning from the background by structuring the capacity to act. In other words, it functions affectively. Key to law's functioning is its ability to also move out from the background in certain …
Policing Atmospheres
In 1983, the British police adopted their first public order policing manual, laying the foundations of a secretive archive. The manuals and training materials produced in the intervening years provide an untapped repository of affective thought. This article reads the 1983 and 2016 training materials for their atmospheric insights. It develops the term police 'atmotechnics' to describe interventions that are specifically designed to affect the c…
Atmospheres of Protest
Commentators often remark upon the “festive” or “tense” atmosphere of major protests. This seems to signify the general outlook of the protestors or the relations between them and the police. It signals the potential of the protests to unfold in a peaceful, joyous manner or with violence. While “festive” and “tense” are useful ways of thinking about protest atmospheres, they are often used in a highly reductive manner. The literature on atmospher…
Legal Aesthesis
The right to protest
The slogan 'defend the right to protest' has proved popular in recent years, connecting a wide variety of organisations, activists and institutional actors.But beneath this apparent agreement of left and centre-left groups, we find quite a significant difference of views over the meaning of the 'right to protest', and what activities it might protect.This article sets out to critically engage with the way that an institutional human rights discou…
No Justice, No Peace
Instead of thinking of 'public order' as the type of power that police deploy to manage disorder, this article suggests that we understand it as a set of background affects. The problem of analysing these affects is that (aside from moments of unrest) the majority of the populace is anaesthetised to them. Most people take the public feelings of calm predictability for granted. Crucially, however, the everyday management of public order does not a…
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third, and essentially important, dimension to sovereignty. Law, politics and aesthetics all play equ…
Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus
Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this article I use it to frame the field of public order and the internal security apparatus. The internal security apparatus names those elements of the state which ensure a docile populace. This article suggests that internal security should be considered as an affective apparatus, arguing that …
Legal Observation at Protest
Drawing on the experiences of developing the Irish Network of Legal Observers, this article explores the role of the legal observer in upholding the contemporary right of protest. It develops a categorization of different types of legal observer projects and analyses the international protections available to human rights defenders. Ultimately, the article argues that the legal observer plays an essential human rights function, particularly when …
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