Exceptions Journal

Participants can submit their contributions in the form of articles to peer-reviewed Exceptions: European Journal of Critical Jurisprudence (EXC), which is associated with the conference.

Exceptions aims to establish a forum for the critical, transdisciplinary study of law and its ramifications across various spheres of social and individual life. The journal does not seek to prescriptively redefine what critical jurisprudence is or ought to be. At a minimum, critical jurisprudence is envisioned here as a combination of a hermeneutic of suspicion toward received legal and political narratives (particularly those of legal positivism and liberal legality) with an emancipatory goal of subverting structures of domination deeply embedded in the increasingly worn-out fabric of the juridical.

We invite contributions that align with the aims of the journal, including postcolonial theory, feminist jurisprudence, critical race theory, law and literature, as well as other critical theoretical engagements, such as cultural theory, ideology critique, critical sociology, anthropology of law, critical comparative law, and critical legal histories. We are also keen to consider papers epistemologically written from an internal legal perspective, provided they incorporate a consciously critical edge.