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Biography

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, LLB, LLM, PhD, has read Law in Thessaloniki, Greece, as well as in other European cities as part of the European Mobility programmes. He completed his LLM at King's College, London, and his PhD at Birkbeck College, London. 

 

Andreas's research interests include critical legal theory, autopoiesis, philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, geography, art, phenomenology, and their critical instances of confluence. He researches in the areas of environmental law, human rights and postmodern jurisprudence.

He is a Professor of Law & Theory and Director of the Westminster International Law & Theory Centre at the University of Westminster, London, where he teaches European Union Law, Environmental Law and Critical Legal Theory.

Recent/ select Publications

BOOKS

• A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Absent Environments: Theorising Environmental Law and the City, London: Routledge, 2007
• A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.), Law and the City, London: Routledge, 2007
• A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society, Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers Series, London: Routlege, 2009

 

EDITORSHIP

• Co-Editor (with Sharron A. FitzGerald) of 17 Griffith Law Review 2, Special Issue, ‘Invisible Laws, Visible Cities’, 2008
• Co-Editor (with Sharron A. FitzGerald) of 6 International Journal of Law in Context 2, Special Issue, ‘Law Space Movement’, 2010    

 

REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

•  ‘Every Organism Needs its Health: Urban Sustainability and Systems Theory’, 6 Journal of Contemporary Health, 53-57, 1997
• ‘Μεγαλουπόλεις και Μικροθεωρίες’ (‘Megacities and Microtheories’, in Greek), Οικοτοπία 20, 41-49, 1999
• ‘The Silence of the Sirens: Environmental Risk and the Precautionary Principle’, 10 Law and Critique 2, 175-197, 1999
• ‘Mapping Utopias: A Voyage to Placelessness’, 2 Law and Critique 12, 135-157, 2001
• ‘Suspension of Suspension: Settling for the Improbable’, 15 Law and Literature 3, 345-370, 2003
• ‘Caspian Catachreses: Environmental Transplanting in a Space of Flows’, in J. Paterson, I. Bantekas and S. Suleimenov (eds), Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Law: National and International Perspectives, The Hague: Kluwer, 2004
• ‘Between Law and Justice: A Connection of No Connection between Luhmann and Derrida’, K. E. Himma (ed.), Law, Morality, and Legal Positivism (ARSP Beihefte), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004
• ‘Beauty and the Beast: Art and Law in the Hall of Mirrors’, 2 Entertainment Law 3, 1-34, 2004
• ‘Boundaries of Exclusions Past: the Memory of Waste’, in R. Lippens (ed.), Imaginary Boundaries of Justice, Oxford: Hart, 2004
• ‘The Vociferous Rupture: Silence, Law and Ignorance’, 7 Organdi Revue, February 2005, http://www.organdi.net/article.php3?id_article=64
• ‘Between Light and Darkness: Earthsea and the Name of Utopia’, 8 Contemporary Justice Review 1, 45-57, 2005
• ‘Dealing (with) Paradoxes: On Law, Justice and Cheating’ in M. King and C. Thornhill (eds), Luhmann on Law and Politics: Critical Appraisals and Applications, Oxford: Hart, 2005
• ‘Before: Identity, Gender, Human Rights', 14 Feminist Legal Studies 3, 271-291, 2006
• ‘On the Line of the Horizon: Anxiety in de Chirico’s Metaphysical Landscapes’, in G. Ricci (ed.), Religion and Public Life Annual Series, Vol. 35, 2006
• ‘In the Lawscape’, Introduction to the volume, A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.), Law and the City, London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
• ‘Brazilia: Utopia Postponed’, in A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.), Law and the City, London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
• ‘Fear in the Lawscape’, in J. Priban (ed.), Liquid Society and Its Law, Aldershot: Ashgate 2007
•  ‘On Absence: Society’s Return to Barbarians’, in 14 Soziale Systeme 1, 142-156, 2008
• ‘When ‘no’ means ‘yes’: A Constitution for Europe and the Limits of Ignorance, in H. Petersen, H. Krunke, A. L. Kjær and M. R. Madsen (eds), Paradoxes of European Legal Integration, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008
•  ‘In-Environment of Law’, in R. Dasgupta (ed.), Possibilities of Cultural Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2008
•  ‘From Space Immaterial: The Invisibility of the Lawscape’ (co-authored with Sharron A. FitzGerald), 17 Griffith Law Review 2, 438-454, 2008
• ‘The Successful Failure of A Constitution for Europe’, 15 European Law Journal 3, 309-323, May 2009
• ‘The Limits of Ignorance’ in Amita Parashar and Archana Dhanda (eds), Decolonisation of Legal Knowledge, Routledge, 2009

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

• William Taylor (ed.), The Geography of Law: Landscape, Identity and Regulation, Oxford: Hart, 2006, 16 Social and Legal Studies 4, 619-621, 2007
• Mark Halsley, Deleuze and Environmental Damage: Violence of the Text, Ashgate, 2006, 20 Journal of Environmental Law 1, 2008
• Jiri Priban, Legal Symbolism: On Law, Time and European Identity, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 20 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 1, 185-188, 2008
• Sharon M. Meagher (ed.), Philosophy and the City, Albany: New York State University Press, 2008, 46 Urban Studies 713, 2009
• Cornelia Vismann, Files, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008, in Law and Politics Book Review Online, 2009

 

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

 

• A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.), Law and Ecology: New Normative Foundations, London: Routledge, due 2010
• A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Anders La Cour (eds), Observing Luhmann: Radical Theoretical Encounters, Springer Verlag, due 2011

 

FORTHCOMING ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

• ‘Giving Guilt’, in Economy and Society, due 2010
• ‘The Awnings of Justice: De Chirico and Luhmann against the Horizon’, in Ben-Dor. O. (ed.), Law and Art, London: Routledge, due 2010
• ‘Hellenes, Barbarians, Law, Justice: The Lure of the Outside’, in The Greek International Yearbook of Critical Legal Thought, due 2010
•  ‘On Hybrids’, in N. Akestrom and I. J. Sand (ed.), Hybrids, Polity Press, due 2010
• ‘Law’s Spatial Turn: Geography, Justice and a Certain Fear of Space’, Law, Culture and Humanities, due 2010
• ‘Spatial Justice: Law and the Geography of Withdrawal’, International Journal of Law in Context Special Issue ‘Law Space Movement’, due 2010
• ‘Sensing the Lawscape’, in A. Brighenti (ed.), The Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Interstices, due 2011

 

INVITED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

 

• I.1998-VI.1999          UCL Development Planning Unit, London
• VIII.2000                  Summer School for Democracy, Cotor, Yugoslavia
• VIII.2001-I.2002         Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA
• VI -VIII.2003/04, 07   University of Miami, School of Law Summer School at UCL, London
• IV–VI.2006 (ongoing) Centre for Politics, Management and Philosophy, Business School, Copenhagen
• VIII.2009 (ongoing)    Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice

 

INVITED LECTURES

 

2001            Media in War: NATO Campaign and the Simulation of Fear, University of Podgorica, Montenegro

2002                 Integration: Friend or Foe?, South Bank University

2003                Codification and Improbability, DePaul, Chicago, IL

2004                The Paradoxical Union of Europe, Central University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2005                Dealing with Paradoxes: Law, Justice and Cheating, Centre for Politics, Management and Philosophy, Copenhagen

2006                 Ipseity in Gender and Human Rights, University of Cardiff

2006            In-Environment, Keynote Speech, Cultural Politics Symposium, InSpire, Keele

2007                Luhmann and Derrida: A Connection of No-Connection, Hong Kong University

2007            When ‘no’ means ‘yes’: A Constitution for Europe and the Limits of Ignorance, School of Law, University of Copenhagen, Keynote Speech

2007            Negative Theology: Kierkegaard and Distinction, Copenhagen Business School

2008            Ways of Conceptualising the Connection between Law and Justice, University of Kent

2008            Negativity and Suspension, University of Warwick

2008            Paradoxical Justice (in Italian), Faculty of Sociology, Universitá di Trento, Italy

2008            Lawscaping: Law in Venice  (in Italian), Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy

2009            Absent Environing, Governance & Sustainability Programme, Centre for the Study of Democracy, London

2009            Inaugural Lecture: Decolonisation of Knowledge, Centre for Leadership in Education, Copenhagen Business School

2009            Spatial Justice, Law School, University of Copenhagen

2009            The Space of the Environment, School of Law, University of Oslo

 

MAJOR EVENTS ORGANISATION 

 

1999                        Critical Legal Conference. Birkbeck College, University of London, Co-organiser

IX. 2004                   Critical Legal Conference. University of Westminster, Principal Organiser

2002-present            Research Staff Seminars. School of Law, University of Westminster, Organiser

XI. 2008                   Law’s Unbuilt, International Symposium, Byzantine Museum of Athens, Athens

VI. 2009                   Critical Environmental Law Symposium, University of Westminster

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS 

 

2000. Art for Art and Law for Law: The Limits of Legal Narcissism, Critical Legal Conference, Helsinki, Finland

2000. Instances of Integration in Environmental Law, The Environmental Consequences of the Balkan Wars, Budva, Republic of Yugoslavia

2000. Beauty and the Beast: Art and Law in the Hall of Mirrors, ILSS, Conference on Cultural Studies, Onati

2000. Ears Wide Shut: Risk and Precautionary Principle, Environmental Law Symposium, Cumberland Lodge

2002. Single Black Box Seeking: Autopoietics of Intimacy, ‘Love is a Much Splendoured Thing: Language, Love and Sexuality’, Kingston University

2002. Boundaries of Exclusions Past: the Memory of Waste, ILSS, ‘Imaginary Boundaries’, Onati, Spain

2002. Deconstructed Environment: The Fear of the Text, ‘Textual Environments/Environnements Textuels’, Sorbonne II, Paris, France

2003. Between Law and Justice: The Code of the Improbable, Internationale Vereinung für Rechtssoziologie, Law and Philosophy International Congress, Lund, Sweden

2003. Suspension of Suspension: Love and Law in Luhmann, Kierkegaard, Derrida, Critical Legal Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003. Society chez Luhmann, ‘Law and Politics in the Thought of Niklas Luhmann’, Oñati, Spain

2004. Legal Transplants as Always-Already There, ‘Law and Society’, Chicago, IL, USA

2004. Identity, Gender, Human Rights, ‘Gender Auditing Human Rights’, University of Kent, Kent

2004. Before, Critical Legal Conference, University of Westminster

2005. Kierkegaard’s already Been Here: Comparative Law and Theology, ‘Justice, Globalisation and Interfaith’, Globalisation for the Common Good, Kericho, Kenya

2005. Fear in the Lawscape, Liquid Society, Symposium on Zygmunt Bauman, Cardiff University

2006. Absent Environments, Critical Legal Conference, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India

2006. Politics of European Constitutionalsm, University of Copenhagen, Skodsborg, Denmark

2007. Society and its Shadows, Law & Society Association, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

2007. Emotionality and Urban Normativity, Critical Legal Conference, Birkbeck School of Law, London

2007. The Empty Agency: Emotions in the Lawscape, Tata Institute for Social Sciences & CLGS, Goa, India

2008. Urban Risks, RCSL, Milan, Italy

2009. Law and Geography, Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Conference, Boston, MA