Stewart Motha

Latest COUNTERSIGN podcast now LIVE: 'Fukushima - the art of staying with the trouble', recorded at the Fukushima nuclear Exclusion Zone, Japan.

I travelled to Fukushima in early February with art curator Jason Waite, and CHIM↑POM artist Motumo.

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Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S

"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...

Recommend this piece by @stewartmotha.bsky.social, on the parallels between the Chagos islands and Greenland.

Countersign – A podcast Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law...

I really loved speakigg bf to @stewartmotha.bsky.social about my book on interception powers, legal materialities, media theory and more for his excellent Cointersign podcast. Now online here:
countersignisapodcast.com

This is wonderful ..,
‘AI is not inevitable’ … how and why to push back!!

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 is a judgment that has triggered great public discussion about the position of trans people in Great Britain (for an interesting discussion of…

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/06/c...

Thrilled that my article 'What is (the) Matter with Climate Litigation?' has been published
Open Access in JLS: lnkd.in/gYCCiTck
I contest several new materialist approaches, and discuss how law conceives of ‘matter’.
It is the opening of a larger project on law & nature.

🚨🎙️With Trump’s chaos, ‘The Tyranny of the Deal’ podcast with Patricia J. Williams could not be more relevant!

Glad you liked it. Thought it would resonate with your work …!

Book cover of 'The Miracle of the Black Leg' depicting white man with transplanted leg of a black man from 15th century painting.

Image of Patricia J. Williams

Latest Countersign podcast with Patricia J. Williams – ‘The Tyranny of the Deal: Race, Contract, and the Spirit of the Law’ - is now Live!

Listen where you get your podcasts (e.g. Apple podcasts, Spotify etc), or: countersignisapodcast.com

Climate Justice through International Courts: Examples from the Pacific and Ukraine Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Joakim Dungel Lectures for International Justice.

I am at School of Law Gothenburg University to discuss climate justice and ecocide as part of annual Joakim Dungel Lecture alongside terrific speakers.

www.gu.se/en/event/cli...

Remains of a tree on the shoreline

remains of a home destroyed by force of tidal waters

Countersign podcast, 'When the trees have gone'-Veraibari and the Pacific in the ICJ, with international lawyers, Fleur Ramsay and Watna Mori is now live.
We consider impact of biodiversity loss on culture; and examine arguments at ICJ A.O.
Wherever you get podcasts - lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios

Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

Latest Countersign episode on Marlen Haushofer's 'The Wall' (1963) with Dr Anna Richards (Birkbeck) is Live!
Delving into this deeply eco-feminist story - we explore ways of living and relating in catastrophic times.

Countersign is available wherever you get podcast - or at lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

Episode 163: Justice - Hotel Bar Podcast The HBS hosts survey theories of justice from the ancients to the present.

Episode 163 just dropped and this week out co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @rickleephilos.bsky.social & @davidgunkel.bsky.social let their conversation about justice flow like a river!

hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

From Veraibari to The Hague: Frontline Communities Demanding Climate Justice YouTube video by Nihi Indigenous Media

I was privileged to accompany Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to Veraibari, Papua New Guinea, as they prepared for this ICJ case last month. So much riding on ICJ Advisory Op - not least the futures of many island states, peoples, and cultures. Watch and share the video below.

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I was listening again to the prescient analysis by Prof Patricia Williams of race in the U.S, and Donald Trump's use of rhetoric and images. See my 2020 interview of her for Countersign: countersignisapodcast.com/podcasts/cul...

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I’ve just visited Veraibari village (pop. 1000), Kikori River, Papua New Guinea, with Pacific lawyers preparing submissions to ICJ Advisory Op on Climate.
This tattered house shows the force of climate devastation.
Countersign podcast with lawyers Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to follow soon.