Recommended Resources

These resources introduce authors to a range of ideas that fall within the scope of the TLHC, but they are by no means mandatory or exhaustive. They may be of particular benefit to undergraduate students, who are less exposed to critical theory than graduate students.

Historical and Theoretical

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  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free online and academically-citable database that provides comprehensive introduction to hundreds of concepts and intellectuals.
  • The Oxford Handbook Series compiles historical scholarship pertaining to all major themes and periods of history over the last 1,000 years. Each book comprises essays from multiple authors.
  • Open Yale Courses is a collection of online lecture recordings from Yale University. There are forty modules available.
  • Kleinberg, Scott, and Wilder, “Theses on Theory and History”, Wild On Collective, 2018, (https://historyandtheory.org/theoryrevolt)

Food FOR THOUGHT

  • Dixon, “‘Thoughts are Things’: Theosophy, Religion, and the History of the Real”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2021
  • Ní Éigeartaigh, “Invented Irishness: The Americanisation of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor”, 2009
  • Britt, “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”, 2022
  • Ranawana, “A Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race, and Cross”, 2022
  • Shoemaker, “Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies”, 2002
  • Ong, “Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality”, 1999
  • Stacey, “Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland”, 2007
  • Grove, “Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860”, 1995
  • Ehrlich, “The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge”, 2023
  • Moulton, “”Both Your Sexes” A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain”, in History Workshop Journal, 2023
  • Monbiot and Hutchinson, “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)”, 2024
  • Ong, “Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty”, 2006
  • Ogle, “Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s– 1940s”, in American Historical Review, 2013
  • Altwaiji, “Neo-Orientalism and the Neo-Imperialism Thesis: Post-9/11 US and Arab World Relationship” in Arab Studies Quarterly, 2014
  • Skenderovic and Späti “From Orientalism to Islamophobia: Reflections, Confirmations, and Reservations”, in The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, 2019
  • Carroll and Kind (ed), “Ireland and Postcolonial Theory“, 2003
  • Space, “Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape”, in The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, 2023
  • Currah, “Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide”, in The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, 2023
  • Sharpe, “From Functionality to Aesthetics: The Architecture of Transgender Jurisprudence”, in The Transgender Studies Reader, 2006
  • Kleinberg, “Pandering to the Timid: The Truth about Post-Truth”, in Theses on Theory and History, 2019

Legal

Domestic law (WITh a focus on Ireland)

  • Ginsburg, “Why Judicial Review?”, in Judicial Review in New Democracies, 2009
  • Kenny, “TD v Minister For Education, Constitutional Culture, and Constitutional Dark Matter”, in Irish Judicial Studies Journal, 2022
  • Carolan, “Leaving Behind the Commonwealth Model of Rights Review: Ireland As An Example of Collaborative Constitutionalism”, Rights-Based Constitutional Review, 2016
  • Collins and Hanafin, “Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution”, in Law and Critique, 2001
  • Enright, “Northern / Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity“, 2017
  • Rooney, “Judges, Education and Class in Ireland”, in Irish Judicial Studies Journal, 2023
  • Abel, “A Critique of American Tort Law”, in British Journal of Law and Society, 1981

International law

  • Islava, “Istanbul vignettes: observing the everyday operation of international law”, in London Review of International Law, 2014
  • Mutua, “Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights”, in Harvard International Law Journal, 2001
  • Anghie, “The Evolution of International Law: Colonial and Postcolonial Realities”, in Third World Quarterly, 2006
  • Kennedy, “International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?”, in Assessing the Dark Side of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, 2004
  • Peters, “Corporations, Sovereignty and the Religion of Neoliberalism”, in Law and Critique, 2018
  • Eghbariah, “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”, in Columbia Law Review, 2024

Miscellaneous

  • Wall, Shah, and Middleton, “Introduction: Critical Attractions”, in Critical Legal Pocketbook, 2021
  • Marks, “Introduction”, in International Law on the Left, 2008
  • Schlag, “Law and Phrenology”, in Harvard Law Review, 1997
  • Schlag, “Rights in the Postmodern Condition”, in Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, 1997
  • Kennedy, “Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy”, in Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, 2007
  • Williams, “Introduction: Voice, Trust, and Memory”, in Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalised Groups And The Failings of Liberal Representation, 1998
  • Susstein, “On The Expressive Function of Law”, in East European Constitutional Review, 1996
  • Schultz, “Open Statement on Sexual Harassment from Employment Discrimination Law Scholars”, in Stanford Law Symposium “#MeToo”, 2018
  • Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color”, in Stanford Law Review, 1991
  • Clarke, “They, Them, and Theirs”, in Harvard Law Review, 2019
  • Kaplow and Shavel, “Fairness vs Welfare”, in Harvard Law Review, 2001

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