In this sixth episode Leila Brännström and Tormod Johansen are talking to Bas Schotel, assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. We take our cue from two very interesting texts written by Bas:
The first one is a text from 2018, a chapter with the title “Immediacy, Potentia and Constraining Emergency Powers”. And the other one is a more recent article from 2021 with the title “Administrative Law as a Dual State, Authoritarian Elements of Administrative Law”.
Our discussion explores the dynamics of administrative law, focusing on legal protection, emergency powers, and the concept of the dual state. We examine how administrative discretion and judicial oversight intersect, particularly when factual power (‘potentia’) is exercised directly. Through concrete examples, we consider how the practice of administrative law raises broader questions about legality and democratic integrity in liberal states.
This podcast is produced by the End of Law research project in collaboration with the At the End of the World research programme. Producer is Joel Kuhlin and the music is by Simon Hansson.
If you would like to contact the podcast, you’re welcome to send an email to tormod.otter.johansen@law.gu.se
12 Jun 2024
5: Rethinking Emergency From a Legal Historical Perspective
Julia Dahlqvist and Tormod Johansen talked with Cosmin Cercel about his project “Rethinking emergency from a legal historical perspective”.
19 Dec 2023
4: Between Kant and Hegel: Alexandre Kojève and the End of Law
This is the fourth episode of the End of law podcast and consists of a lecture by professor Jeff Love. It was recorded on 1 June 2021 as part of the Law, Theology and Culture seminar in Lund.
Jeff Love is Research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University and the author of several books including The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (Columbia University Press, 2018) and translations of among other authors Kojéve and Schelling.
The epsisode starts with a short introduction by Mårten Björk and then professor Love's lecture on Alexandre Kojève. In his lecture Love focuses on the Kantian and Hegelian aspects of Kojève's work, especially in relation to his posthumously published treatise Outline of a Phenomenology of Right. In this work Kojève expounds a comprehensive theory of justice and the universal homogeneous state that promises to usher in the end of history and perhaps of law itself. Love examines some of the central legal features of Kojève's universal and homogeneous state and consider whether Kojève actually affirms that history can be brought to an end through a final legal regime or not.
This podcast is produced by the End of Law research project in collaboration with the At the End of the World research programme. Producer is Joel Kuhlin and the music is by Simon Hansson.
If you would like to contact the podcast, you’re welcome to send an email to tormod.otter.johansen@law.gu.se
15 Nov 2023
3: Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times
This is the third episode of the End of law podcast.
In this episode Tormod Johansen and Jayne Svenungsson talks to Alison McQueen, political scientist working at Stanford University. We discussed her 2018 book Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times. In the book McQueen discusses three important political realists – Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau – who all in their respective eras engaged with and in different ways reacted to and used apocalypticism.
The first part of the episode is a short introduction by Aaron Goldman of the At the End of the World research programme organising this talk. After that the discussion between McQueen, Svenungsson and Johansen follow, which ranged from the concept of apocalypticism, the dangers and potentials of apocalyptic imaginaries, and different aspects of the relation between religious and secular understandings of politics and apocalypse.
A couple of books mentioned in the episode:
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (1651)
McQueen, Alison Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Svenungsson, Jayne Divining History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit (Berghahn Books, 2016)
This podcast is produced by the End of Law research project in collaboration with the At the End of the World research programme. Producer is Joel Kuhlin and the music is by Simon Hansson.
If you would like to contact the podcast, you’re welcome to send an email to tormod.otter.johansen@law.gu.se
19 Oct 2023
2: Emergency Powers in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Containment
Tormod Johansen, together with Przemysław Tacik, talked to Karin Loevy about her 2016 book Emergency Powers in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Containment.
13 Sept 2023
1: The Politics of Immortality
This is the inaugural episode of the relaunched End of Law-podcast. Tormod Johansen spoke with Mårten Björk about his newly published book The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg : Theology and Resistance Between 1914-1945. Mårten is a theologian and scholar of religion, at the Newman institute in Uppsala, researcher at CTR in Lund, and an associate fellow at Campion Hall in Oxford.Two friends of the podcast joined:Gian Giacomo Fusco who is a lecturer in law at Kent Law School, working on continental philosophy, legal and political theory with a specific emphasis on sovereignty, state of emergency and biopolitics. And Kelsi Ray, who is a PhD candidate at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute, with a project on how Christians in the fourth and fifth centuries coped with bereavment through beliefs about death, resurrection as well as ritual practices. Mårten started out in the episode describing his ownbackground and how it led to the project of the book, as well as its central argument. The discussion then ranged from the meaning of life and immortality to the relation between theology and politics. This podcast is produced by the End of Law research project in collaboration with the At the End of the World research programme. Producer: Joel KuhlinVignette music: Simon Hansson
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