Faculty Member, Law
Senior Lecturer in Law
About
Illan rua Wall is the author of Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty, and editor of New Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political (with Costas Douzinas & Matthew Stone).
He graduated with distinction from University College Cork (BCL) and the National University of Ireland, Galway (LLM in International Human Rights Law). He holds a PHD from Birkbeck College, University of London in Legal Theory and Human Rights.
His primary research focuses on post-structural philosophy, political and legal theory and human rights. In particular the relationship between constituent power and human rights. Other research interests include the intersection of law and geography (particularly looking at internal displacment in Colombia) and the development of ‘human rights film'. He teaches Critical Legal Theory, International Human Rights Law, and Equity and Trusts.
He is on the editorial board of Law and Critique, on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Critical Globalization and he is an editor on the blog Critical Legal Thinking. He often writes for Human Rights in Ireland, CrisisJam (on politico.ie) and Irish Left Review. He was a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, and the University of Melbourne during the summer of 2010.
Books & Collections:
New Critical Legal Thinking: Law, Politics and the Political, (Edited with Matt Stone & Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, London, 2012): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619578/
Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty, (Glasshouse Press/Routledge, London, 2011): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415584975/
(Reviewed in Law, Culture and the Humanites: http://lch.sagepub.com/content/8/2/378.extract)
'The Borders of the Political and the Politics of Borders,' (Edited Collection/Special Edition with Ben Golder and Victoria Ridler) 20.2 Law and Critique (2009), p105
Selected Articles:
'Displacement & the City: The Occupation of Public Space in Bogota,' (with Carolina Olarte Olarte), Social & Legal Studies (Forthcoming, 2012) (http://sls.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/23/0964663912442442.abstr
'A Different Constituent Power: Agamben & Tunisia' in Douzinas, Stone & Wall, New Critical Legal Thinking (Birkbeck Law Press, 2012)
'Unworking Sovereign Consensus: Tunisia & the Critical Legal Theory of Dissensus', Currently awaiting publication decision
'On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights,' 29 The Australian Feminist Law Journal (2008), p53
'Rights', 'The Political' and 'Ecotechnics': Contribution to Hutchens, B, The Jean-Luc Nancy Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
SSRN page: http://ssrn.com/author=957215
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