This conference interrogates the differential vulnerabilities, responsibilities, and accountabilities that law works with and against. It brings together scholars from the Transformative Effects of Global Law (TEGL) project and activists based in the Netherlands to explore sites of engagement with(in) more-than-human existences. Ranging from litigation for ecological care, posthumanist approaches to collective action and technological sensing of (un)recognized vulnerabilities, the conference will foster transdisciplinary conversations on existing academic and non-academic projects.

The panel discussions will be followed by presentations from the Theory Hacks collective. This collective is composed of legal researchers specialized in environmental and digital humanities and tech developers. Over 2021/2022, the Theory Hacks collective used the site of De Ceuvel and its phytoremediation process of toxic metals from the polluted soil through the Brassica plant as an entry door to work on Radical Contracting: How to Create Value Metabolisms? The outputs of the joint collaborations will be presented and discussed on site.

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