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Dr Illan Wall

PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer
School of Law
University of Galway
E: illan.wall@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Illan rua Wall joined the Law school as a Lecturer in 2024. Previously he was Professor of Law at the Warwick Law School, where he Co-Directed the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. He holds an Honorary Professorial Fellowship from the University of Warwick.

Illan works on critical legal theory, particularly using legal geography, affect studies and the broad continental philosophy tradition. He applies these insights to questions of rights, protest, strikes, revolt, policing and security. He has published on key debates around sovereignty, constituent power, and legal affect. He is author of Law and Disorder (Routledge 2021), Human Rights and Constituent Power (Routledge 2012) and editor of The Critical Legal Pocketbook (2021) and New Critical Legal Thinking (Routledge 2012). He has published in leading cultural studies, socio-legal and critical legal journals.
Illan is also one of the founding editors of the blog criticallegalthinking.com, and a managing director of the open access publisher Counterpress.

He has supervised and examined PhDs on law and contested development, anarchist constitutionalism, hate speech, protest, and policing among other topics. And welcomes proposals in any areas of expertise, particularly applying critical, feminist, post-structural and political economy lenses.

Books

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere. Wall, Illan (2021) Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]
	(2012)	Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty. Wall, Illan (2012) Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	'Tension and Syndicalism: The Vibrant Ideology of the Strike' Illan rua Wall (2024) 'Tension and Syndicalism: The Vibrant Ideology of the Strike'. New Formations, [Details]
	(2024)	''Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic'' Wall, Illan; Matthews, Daniel (2024) ''Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic''. Modern Law Review, [Details]
	(2023)	'The Right to Protest' Wall, Illan (2023) 'The Right to Protest'. The International Journal of Human Rights, [Details]
	(2022)	''No Justice, No Peace': Black Radicalism and the Atmosphere of the Internal Colony' Wall, Illan (2022) ''No Justice, No Peace': Black Radicalism and the Atmosphere of the Internal Colony'. Theory Culture & Society, [Details]
	(2020)	'The Ordinary Affects of Law' Wall, Illan (2020) 'The Ordinary Affects of Law'. Law, Culture and the Humanities, [Details]
	(2019)	'Policing Atmospheres: Crowds, Protests and `Atmotechnics¿' Wall, Illan (2019) 'Policing Atmospheres: Crowds, Protests and `Atmotechnics¿'. Theory Culture & Society, [Details]
	(2019)	'Podcast as Assessment: Entanglement and Affect in the Law School' Illan rua Wall (2019) 'Podcast as Assessment: Entanglement and Affect in the Law School'. The Law Teacher, [Details]
	(2016)	'The Law of Crowds' wall, Illan (2016) 'The Law of Crowds'. Legal Studies, [Details]
	(2015)	'Notes on an 'Open' Constituent Power' Wall, Illan (2015) 'Notes on an 'Open' Constituent Power'. Law, Culture and the Humanities, [Details]
	(2012)	'The Occupation of Public Space in Bogotá: Internal Displacement and the City' Wall, Illan; Olarte, Carolina (2012) 'The Occupation of Public Space in Bogotá: Internal Displacement and the City'. Social & Legal Studies, [Details]
	(2012)	'Tunisia and the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus' Illan rua Wall (2012) 'Tunisia and the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus'. Law and Critique, [Details]
	(2008)	'On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights' Illan rua Wall (2008) 'On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights'. Australian Feminist Law Journal, [Details]
	(2006)	'Heros are Hard to Find: Law, Literature and Duress' Wall, Illan (2006) 'Heros are Hard to Find: Law, Literature and Duress'. Journal Of International Criminal Justice, [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	'The Constitution of Turbulence' Wall, Illan (2022) 'The Constitution of Turbulence' In: Beyond Development. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]
	(2021)	'Atmospheres of Protest' Wall, Illan (2021) 'Atmospheres of Protest' In: Oxford Handbook in Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
	(2021)	'Neoliberal Termites and Zombie Human Rights' Wall, Illan (2021) 'Neoliberal Termites and Zombie Human Rights' In: Human Rights: Between capture and emancipation. Rio de Janeiro: PUC Press. [Details]
	(2018)	'Turbulent Legality, between Sovereignty and the Police' Wall, Illan (2018) 'Turbulent Legality, between Sovereignty and the Police' In: The Routledge Research Handbook of Law & Theory. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]
	(2017)	'This Agitated Veil: A Spatial Justice of the Crowd' Wall, Illan (2017) 'This Agitated Veil: A Spatial Justice of the Crowd' In: Spaces of Justice: Positions, Passages, Appropriations. London: Wildy and Sons. [Details]
	(2014)	'On a Radical Politics for Human Rights' Wall, Illan (2014) 'On a Radical Politics for Human Rights' In: The Meanings of Human Rights: Philosophy and Social Theory of Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
	(2012)	'A Different Constituent Power: Agamben and Tunisia' Wall, Illan (2012) 'A Different Constituent Power: Agamben and Tunisia' In: New Critical Legal Thinking. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]

Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	The Critical Legal Pocketbook. Wall, Illan; Shah, Sahar; Middleton, Freya (Ed.). (2021) The Critical Legal Pocketbook The Critical Legal Pocketbook. Oxford: Counterpress. [Details]
	(2012)	New Critical Legal Thinking. Wall, Illan; Douzinas, Costas; Stone, Matthew (Ed.). (2012) New Critical Legal Thinking New Critical Legal Thinking. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details]

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	University of Warwick	Professor	01-SEP-12 / 31-DEC-23
	Oxford Brookes University	Senior Lecturer	01-SEP-08 / 31-AUG-12

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2009	Birkbeck College, University of London	PhD	Law
2004	National University of Ireland, Galway	LLM	International Human Rights
2003	University College Cork	BCL	Law