Mutual aid and alternative legalities (LAW-DS-MUTAID)
LAW-DS-MUTAID
| Department |
LAW |
| Course category |
LAW Seminar - 6 credits |
| Course type |
Seminar |
| Academic year |
2026-2027 |
| Term |
3RD TERM |
| Credits |
6 (EUI Law credits) |
| Professors |
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| Contact |
Law Department administration,
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| Sessions |
29/04/2027 10:00-17:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati
30/04/2027 10:00-17:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati
03/05/2027 10:00-17:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati
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| Reading list |
Link
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| Enrolment info |
21/09/2026 - 25/09/2026 |
Purpose
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Description
Social movements today often advocate and practice mutual aid. The idea of mutual aid goes back to 19th and early 20th Century anarchism. Peter Kropotkin famously defended mutual aid as a more plausible and promising understanding of human interaction than competition-based models grounded in Darwinian thought.
This seminar will explore the theory and practice of mutual aid with a special focus on implications for law and its study. In particular, we will explore the relationship between mutual aid and alternative legalities. How do material practices and imaginations of mutual aid prefigure a better society and its (non)laws?
The seminar will centre sociolegal and anarchist texts past and present.
In order to receive credits or an attendance certificate for visitors, participants must attend at least 80% of the classes. Participation is in person only, with exceptions granted only in justified cases and subject to prior approval.
First, Second & Third Term: registration from 21 to 25 September 2026.
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