Welcome to Law Text Culture
Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, open access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three interconnected axes:
- Politics: engaging the relationship of force and resistance;
- Aesthetics: eliciting the relationship of judgment and expression;
- Ethics: exploring the relationship of self and other.
Law Text Culture publishes an annual thematic special issue, curated by guest editors selected by the editorial board. Each issue explores its theme across a range of genres, with scholarly essays and articles sitting alongside visual and literary engagements. In this way, Law Text Culture excites unique intersectional and interdisciplinary encounters with law in all its forms.
For proposals and applications information about submitting to upcoming volumes see call for submissions.
For further information about the scholarly remit of the journal, please contact the Managing Editor.
Editors: Kathleen Birrell (Guest Editor), Martin Clark (Guest Editor), Julia Dehm (Guest Editor)
Articles
Front pages
Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene
Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene
Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 1–17
'Nature is of God': Land, Money, Empire and Extraction in James Harrington's Legal Thought, 1656-60
Martin Clark
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 18–39
Frontier Extractivism: Climate Change and Indigenous Dispossession
Lee Godden
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 40–74
Vision of Extraction: Maps, Law and the Ocean
Kate Jama
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 75–99
The Power of 'Net Zero': Seductive Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier
Dayna Nadine Scott
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 100–138
The Case of the Impossible Mining License: Legal Rituals and 'Responsible Mining'
Doris Buss
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 139–164
Agrarian Extractivism, Peasant Culture and Law from Below
Theodora Valkanou
2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 165–193