Awards

• Short-listed for SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2024
• Short-listed for The Hart–SLSA Book Prize 2024
• Winner of SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2024

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Spectacles and Specters is a superior achievement in the application of critical theory to law and politics. Ertur's grasp and deft engagement with political and legal theory surrounding the received (largely liberal) idea of political trials provides precisely the right framework to situate her novel conceptualization, centered as it is on both the generative character of law's performativity and the performative failures, contradictions, and excesses of law that produce unintended political effects.---Asli UE. Bali, Professor, UCLA School of Law, Offering an exquisite and impressive weave of theory, legal history, trial drama, and political storytelling, Spectacles and Specters is a highly nuanced critical legal study of the modern political trial. Grounded in a set of detailed readings of several trials concerning the 1915 Armenian genocide, the book displaces Nuremberg as the model of the modern political trial and offers a sophisticated theorization of the performativity of the law and state sovereignty.---Avery Gordon, author of The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins,

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Başak Ertür is a critical legal scholar based at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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