Ultimate conversation: Fitzpatrick at Warwick, February 2020

Abdul Paliwala
2021 International Journal of Law in Context  
AbstractThis is the edited transcript of a seminar on 27 February 2020 organised at Warwick Law School in appreciation of the work of Peter Fitzpatrick. Peter was seriously ill at the time but was desirous of online participation. Sadly, the seminar was the last public performance by Peter prior to his death. A variety of themes in Peter's work are discussed, including his critique of H.L.A. Hart, his notion of 'slow reading', the relationship between theory and grounded engagement with people,
more » ... the idea of community and relationality, the role of the critic, self-criticism, the impossibility of law, decoloniality, occidentalism, mythologies and governmentality, and the significance of narratives.
doi:10.1017/s1744552321000215 fatcat:2ad4jjuhajbj7dmjo33osxzlyq