Post by Greta Olson

I was honored to serve as first editor of the essay collection, Law and Critique / Recht und Kritik (2025), which has just been published in open access in the “controversial” book series with the Verlag Karl Alber. The series is co-edited by Jochen Bung, Franziska Martinsen, Hanna Meißner, Christian Schmidt, Benno Zabel, and myself. We, the editors, wish to thank the Open Access publication fund of the University of Giessen (Justus Liebig University Giessen) and the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) for their generous support of the publication costs. The volume asks if legal critique is possible during a period of autocratic legalism, polycrisis, and “law-fare”? In essays written in English and German, twenty-nine authors address the ambivalent relationship between law and critique. Some perform critical race theoretical, decolonial, and posthumanist criticism. Others discuss the need to defend legal certainty during democratic crises.   The volume features essays by:   Ino Augsberg | Daria Bayer | Eva Bredler | Jochen Bung | Stanley Fish | Sara Gebh | Heide Gerstenberger | Peter Goodrich | Malte-Christian Gruber | Ralph Grunewald | Jonas Heller | Almas Khan | Frans-Willem Korsten | Susanne Krasmann | Daniel Loick | Franziska Martinsen | Esther Neuhann | Greta Olson | Laura Petersen | Anat Rosenberg | Christian Schmidt | Cheryl Suzack | Karina Theurer | Gerlov van Engelenhoven | Carolina Vestena | Frieder Vogelmann | Tim Wihl | Claudia Wirsing | Nicole M. Wright | Benno Zabel   You can access the text at   https://lnkd.in/dFGe6QmB.