2007 Issue

We present this third “issue” of Unbound in a slightly less journal-like fashion. Continuing to resist the general form of the law review, our new site retains the citations and pagination necessary for law journal articles while laying the groundwork on which we may challenge the format of a single “book” for each year’s issue. Read More >

In an essay called Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization, fancy theorist Jacques Rancière wrote that “The place for a political subject is … a gap: being together to the extent that we are in between.” I have always had a hunch that he’s right about this, even though I’m not quite sure I know what he Read More >

By Julieta Lemaitre In 2002, when I left Colombia, human rights discourses were fighting words that invited threats and exile and bloodshed, and, even in the tamer area of women’s rights, where the war remained panting at margins, the defense of human rights located one to the left. When my father heard this was my Read More >

The call for papers and the questions posed by Unbound’s members — some of which were answered, many of which remain open. Symposium Schedule The docket for discussion, as originally planned. Because of a spring nor’easter, a number of speakers could not make it to Cambridge, and the actual schedule differed slightly from this version. Read More >

By James Oleson It is an interesting hypothetical: if you could travel back in time, would you kill the struggling watercolor artist Adolf Hitler in order to avert the Holocaust? If it could prevent a looming nuclear apocalypse, would you murder an innocent scientist? Would you murder a president? These may seem like fanciful questions—they Read More >

By Saskia Sassen My concern here is exploring the limits of power and the complexities of powerlessness—the direct or mediated resistances that the powerless can deploy knowingly or not. Immigration policy enforcement is one institutional domain for exploring these issues, especially in the case of powerful countries and undocumented workers, among the most vulnerable subjects Read More >

By Samuel R. Sommers Upon being asked to contribute to a journal for the “Legal Left,” I immediately focused my cognitive energy on the effort to identify the basis for the invitation. This was an automatic response that I could not help. After all, as a psychologist I chronically seek attributions for others’ actions and Read More >

By Samuel R. Sommers Immanuel Wallerstein delivers a talk at Harvard Law School on the waning power of the U.S. in the modern world system. Opening remarks by Lauren Coyle and Duncan Kennedy. Watch the Video

By Lauren Coyle, Nate Ela, and Zinaida Miller In many ways, Unbound’s re-creation three years ago was an act of resistance: a call founded on the instinctual sense that “something is wrong” in popular discourse, relationships, society, and—most centrally for us—in the operations of law. That initial idea of pervasive wrong has been translated over Read More >