Citation

Guardiola-Rivera O. Law Critiq. 2021; 32(2): 139-146.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10978-021-09294-y

PMID

38624670

PMCID

PMC8127444

Abstract

This is an entry into a collective journal of the twenty-first century years of plague. It introduces the notion of 'lawfare' by way of the contemporary case concerning Lula da Silva and Brazil's fall from grace. The latter is presented as an instance of violence in the international context, the managerial attitude to global disasters and, indeed, a plague. It chronicles the social struggles around the case and on that basis builds a somewhat playful manifesto for a new relationship between legal scholarship, the law school and the imaginary of permanent catastrophe and plague.

Language: en

Keywords

Cleansing; Digital colonialism; Jurisdictional accumulation; Lawfare; Principled alliances; Public secret; Stranger kin