Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Perspectives on Law – rewritten
Contents
Section 1: Law’s authority......................................................................................................................4
Class 1: Antigone (in Molenbeek).......................................................................................................4
Introductory podcast by prof. Morag Goodwin..............................................................................4
Reading 1: Antigone........................................................................................................................5
Lecture notes (Antigone)................................................................................................................7
Reading 2: Lochner v New York (1905)............................................................................................7
Lecture notes (Lohner)...................................................................................................................8
Lecture 1 notes (broader)...............................................................................................................8
Class 2: Legal Knowledge & Law’s Persuasion..................................................................................10
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................10
Reading 1: James Boyd White – Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and
Communal Life (1985)..................................................................................................................12
Reading 2: Boimah FLOMO, et al. v. FIRESTONE NATURAL RUBBER CO. (2011)...........................12
Reading 3: Achebe – Things Fall Apart, ch10................................................................................13
Reading 4: Stacey Lantagne – Swedish Meme Case Blog (2018)..................................................13
Lecture 2 notes.............................................................................................................................13
Class 3: Law’s Violence.....................................................................................................................15
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................15
Reading 1: Peter Goodrich – Languages of Law (1990), Chapter 6: “Modalities of Legal
Annunciation: A Linguistics of Courtroom Speech”......................................................................16
Reading 2: Western Forest Production Ltd. v. Collinson (1985).....................................................17
Reading 3: Willis v western Australia (2014).................................................................................17
Reading 4: Scott Veitch – Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
(2007)...........................................................................................................................................17
Lecture 3 notes.............................................................................................................................18
Section 2: Legal Identities.....................................................................................................................19
Class 4: Race Before the Law............................................................................................................19
Reading 1: Patricia J. Williams – The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991), Chapter 1: “The Brass
Ring and the Deep Blue Sea”........................................................................................................19
Reading 2: UN Human Rights Committee – William Lecraft v. Spain (Communication No.
1493/2006)...................................................................................................................................19
Reading 3: CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v. Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia (C-83/14,
2015, Court of Justice of the EU)..................................................................................................20
Lecture 4 notes.............................................................................................................................20
Class 5: Gender Before the Law........................................................................................................22
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................22
Reading 1: National Legal Service Authority v. Union of India (2014, Supreme Court of India) –
Navya Yadav.................................................................................................................................23
Reading 2: Y. v. France (2023, European Court of Human Rights press release)..........................24
Reading 3: FINA Policy on Eligibility for Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories................24
Reading 4: Stocker v. Stocker (2019, UK Supreme Court).............................................................24
Reading 5: Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (2022), Chapter 1: “The Conspiracy Against Men”
......................................................................................................................................................24
Reading 6: In the No (Part 2).........................................................................................................25
Lecture 5 notes.............................................................................................................................25
Section 3: Legal Geographies................................................................................................................27
Class 6: Territory, Space and Jurisdiction..........................................................................................27
Introductory podcast by [idk].......................................................................................................27
Reading 1: Shaunnagh Dorsett & Shaun McVeigh – Jurisdiction (2012), Chapter 3: “Authority and
Authorization: Sovereignty, Territory, Jurisdiction”......................................................................28
Reading 2: Kfar Adumim Community Settlement v. Minister of Defense (Israeli High Court of
Justice, 2018)................................................................................................................................28
Reading 3: Boumediene v. Bush (U.S. Supreme Court, 2008) – Robert M. Chesney.....................28
Lecture 6 notes.............................................................................................................................29
Class 7: Public, Private and Pasargada..............................................................................................30
Introductory podcast by Dr. Zülâl Muslu......................................................................................30
Reading 1: Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Towards a New Common Legal Sense (2002), Chapter
4: “The Law of the Oppressed: The Construction and Reproduction of Legality in Pasargada”....32
Reading 2: Molla Sali v. Greece (ECtHR, 2018)..............................................................................32
Reading 3: Julie E. Cohen – “Property and the Construction of the Information Economy” (2021)
......................................................................................................................................................32
Lecture 7 notes.............................................................................................................................33
Section 4: Law and the ‘Anthropocene’................................................................................................34
Class 8: Law and the Anthropocene: Time and Space.......................................................................34
Reading 2: International Court of Justice – Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect
of Climate Change (2025).............................................................................................................37
Reading 3: Daniel Matthews – “From Global to Anthropocenic Assemblages: Re-Thinking
Territory, Authority and Rights in the New Climatic Regime” (2019, Modern Law Review).........38
Reading 4: Anna Tsing – “Anthropocene Patches – Space, Time and Position” (2022, Feral Atlas
project).........................................................................................................................................38
Class 9: Law and the Anthropocene: Rights......................................................................................40
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................40
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Reading 1: Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (ECtHR, Grand Chamber,
2024).............................................................................................................................................40
Reading 2: Usha Natarajan – “Who Do We Think We Are? Human Rights in a Time of Ecological
Change” (2022).............................................................................................................................40
Reading 3: Anna Grear – “It’s Wrongheaded to Protect Nature with Human-Style Rights” (2019)
......................................................................................................................................................41
Reading 4: Marie-Christine Fuchs – “Rights of Nature in Europe” (2023).....................................41
Reading 5: Blanca Soro Mateo & Santiago Álvarez – “The Mar Menor Lagoon Enjoys Legal
Standing: And Now What?” (2022)...............................................................................................41
Reading 6: Constitutional Court of Korea – Case on National Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
(2024)...........................................................................................................................................42
Lecture 9 notes.............................................................................................................................42
Section 5: How to be a Global Lawyer..................................................................................................44
Class 10: Rage, Rhetoric and Resistance...........................................................................................44
Reading 1: Scott Veitch – Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
(2007), Chapter 3: “The Laws of Irresponsibility” (focus on Part 3)..............................................44
Reading 2: Audre Lorde – “The Uses of Anger: Responding to Racism” (Your Silence Will Not
Protect You, 2017)........................................................................................................................44
Reading 3: Stéphane Hessel – Time for Outrage (2011)...............................................................44
Lecture 10 notes...........................................................................................................................45
Class 11: Skills & Ethics in Global Lawyering.....................................................................................46
Reading 1: Will Shoki – The World’s Forgotten War (Africa is a Country, 2024)...........................46
Reading 2: Nanjala Nyabola – Travelling While Black (2020), Chapter 1: “M’Pa Blan: I Am Not
White”..........................................................................................................................................46
Reading 3: Amartya Sen – Human Rights and Asian Values (1997)..............................................46
Reading 4: Hamida Begum v. Maran (UK) Ltd. (Court of Appeal, 2021).......................................47
Lecture 11 notes...........................................................................................................................47
Class 12: Strategic Litigation & Justice in Globalized Context...........................................................49
Introductory podcast by Dr. Zülâl Muslu......................................................................................49
Reading 1: Robert Knox – Strategy and Tactics (2010, Finnish Yearbook of International Law)...49
Reading 2: Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion, and Mihretab Yemane Telke v. Nevsun
Resources Ltd. (Supreme Court of British Columbia, 2014) – notice of civil claim........................49
Reading 3: Dan Farber – “Environmental Lawyering Today” (Legal Planet blog, 2024)................49
Lecture 12 notes...........................................................................................................................50
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Section 1: Law’s authority
Class 1: Antigone (in Molenbeek)
Introductory podcast by prof. Morag Goodwin
Purpose of the podcast
o Introduced by Professor Morag Goodwin as part of the Perspectives
on Law course
o Aims not to summarize texts or dictate interpretations, but to:
Provide context for the readings
Offer guidance to help structure reflection and note-taking
Encourage critical engagement with diverse perspectives
Framing concept
o Reference to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk(The Danger
of a Single Story)
o Key idea: beware of approaching law or society through a single
perspective
o Sets the intellectual tone of the course: law is contested, plural,
and multi-voiced
Core text 1: Sophocles’ Antigone
o Themes and focus:
Law’s legitimacy: Creon (positive law) vs Antigone (natural
law)
Conflict between state authority and higher
moral/religious obligations
Reasonableness of perspectives, possibility of compromise,
and lessons for modern society
o Character analysis: reflect on Creon, Antigone, Ismene, and Hymen –
not only what they represent, but why they act as they do
o Relevance today:
Contemporary reimagining’s (e.g., Hartmann’s Molenbeek
Antigone, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire)
Questions of justice, perspective, gender in law
o Linked reading: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
Explores civil disobedience: when it is justified, how it
differs from criminality, and obligations in the face of unjust
law
Raises the distinction between laws unjust by design vs
unjust in application
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Perspectives on Law – rewritten
Contents
Section 1: Law’s authority......................................................................................................................4
Class 1: Antigone (in Molenbeek).......................................................................................................4
Introductory podcast by prof. Morag Goodwin..............................................................................4
Reading 1: Antigone........................................................................................................................5
Lecture notes (Antigone)................................................................................................................7
Reading 2: Lochner v New York (1905)............................................................................................7
Lecture notes (Lohner)...................................................................................................................8
Lecture 1 notes (broader)...............................................................................................................8
Class 2: Legal Knowledge & Law’s Persuasion..................................................................................10
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................10
Reading 1: James Boyd White – Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and
Communal Life (1985)..................................................................................................................12
Reading 2: Boimah FLOMO, et al. v. FIRESTONE NATURAL RUBBER CO. (2011)...........................12
Reading 3: Achebe – Things Fall Apart, ch10................................................................................13
Reading 4: Stacey Lantagne – Swedish Meme Case Blog (2018)..................................................13
Lecture 2 notes.............................................................................................................................13
Class 3: Law’s Violence.....................................................................................................................15
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................15
Reading 1: Peter Goodrich – Languages of Law (1990), Chapter 6: “Modalities of Legal
Annunciation: A Linguistics of Courtroom Speech”......................................................................16
Reading 2: Western Forest Production Ltd. v. Collinson (1985).....................................................17
Reading 3: Willis v western Australia (2014).................................................................................17
Reading 4: Scott Veitch – Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
(2007)...........................................................................................................................................17
Lecture 3 notes.............................................................................................................................18
Section 2: Legal Identities.....................................................................................................................19
Class 4: Race Before the Law............................................................................................................19
Reading 1: Patricia J. Williams – The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991), Chapter 1: “The Brass
Ring and the Deep Blue Sea”........................................................................................................19
Reading 2: UN Human Rights Committee – William Lecraft v. Spain (Communication No.
1493/2006)...................................................................................................................................19
Reading 3: CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v. Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia (C-83/14,
2015, Court of Justice of the EU)..................................................................................................20
Lecture 4 notes.............................................................................................................................20
Class 5: Gender Before the Law........................................................................................................22
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................22
Reading 1: National Legal Service Authority v. Union of India (2014, Supreme Court of India) –
Navya Yadav.................................................................................................................................23
Reading 2: Y. v. France (2023, European Court of Human Rights press release)..........................24
Reading 3: FINA Policy on Eligibility for Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories................24
Reading 4: Stocker v. Stocker (2019, UK Supreme Court).............................................................24
Reading 5: Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (2022), Chapter 1: “The Conspiracy Against Men”
......................................................................................................................................................24
Reading 6: In the No (Part 2).........................................................................................................25
Lecture 5 notes.............................................................................................................................25
Section 3: Legal Geographies................................................................................................................27
Class 6: Territory, Space and Jurisdiction..........................................................................................27
Introductory podcast by [idk].......................................................................................................27
Reading 1: Shaunnagh Dorsett & Shaun McVeigh – Jurisdiction (2012), Chapter 3: “Authority and
Authorization: Sovereignty, Territory, Jurisdiction”......................................................................28
Reading 2: Kfar Adumim Community Settlement v. Minister of Defense (Israeli High Court of
Justice, 2018)................................................................................................................................28
Reading 3: Boumediene v. Bush (U.S. Supreme Court, 2008) – Robert M. Chesney.....................28
Lecture 6 notes.............................................................................................................................29
Class 7: Public, Private and Pasargada..............................................................................................30
Introductory podcast by Dr. Zülâl Muslu......................................................................................30
Reading 1: Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Towards a New Common Legal Sense (2002), Chapter
4: “The Law of the Oppressed: The Construction and Reproduction of Legality in Pasargada”....32
Reading 2: Molla Sali v. Greece (ECtHR, 2018)..............................................................................32
Reading 3: Julie E. Cohen – “Property and the Construction of the Information Economy” (2021)
......................................................................................................................................................32
Lecture 7 notes.............................................................................................................................33
Section 4: Law and the ‘Anthropocene’................................................................................................34
Class 8: Law and the Anthropocene: Time and Space.......................................................................34
Reading 2: International Court of Justice – Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect
of Climate Change (2025).............................................................................................................37
Reading 3: Daniel Matthews – “From Global to Anthropocenic Assemblages: Re-Thinking
Territory, Authority and Rights in the New Climatic Regime” (2019, Modern Law Review).........38
Reading 4: Anna Tsing – “Anthropocene Patches – Space, Time and Position” (2022, Feral Atlas
project).........................................................................................................................................38
Class 9: Law and the Anthropocene: Rights......................................................................................40
Introductory podcast by Prof. Morag Goodwin............................................................................40
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Reading 1: Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (ECtHR, Grand Chamber,
2024).............................................................................................................................................40
Reading 2: Usha Natarajan – “Who Do We Think We Are? Human Rights in a Time of Ecological
Change” (2022).............................................................................................................................40
Reading 3: Anna Grear – “It’s Wrongheaded to Protect Nature with Human-Style Rights” (2019)
......................................................................................................................................................41
Reading 4: Marie-Christine Fuchs – “Rights of Nature in Europe” (2023).....................................41
Reading 5: Blanca Soro Mateo & Santiago Álvarez – “The Mar Menor Lagoon Enjoys Legal
Standing: And Now What?” (2022)...............................................................................................41
Reading 6: Constitutional Court of Korea – Case on National Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
(2024)...........................................................................................................................................42
Lecture 9 notes.............................................................................................................................42
Section 5: How to be a Global Lawyer..................................................................................................44
Class 10: Rage, Rhetoric and Resistance...........................................................................................44
Reading 1: Scott Veitch – Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
(2007), Chapter 3: “The Laws of Irresponsibility” (focus on Part 3)..............................................44
Reading 2: Audre Lorde – “The Uses of Anger: Responding to Racism” (Your Silence Will Not
Protect You, 2017)........................................................................................................................44
Reading 3: Stéphane Hessel – Time for Outrage (2011)...............................................................44
Lecture 10 notes...........................................................................................................................45
Class 11: Skills & Ethics in Global Lawyering.....................................................................................46
Reading 1: Will Shoki – The World’s Forgotten War (Africa is a Country, 2024)...........................46
Reading 2: Nanjala Nyabola – Travelling While Black (2020), Chapter 1: “M’Pa Blan: I Am Not
White”..........................................................................................................................................46
Reading 3: Amartya Sen – Human Rights and Asian Values (1997)..............................................46
Reading 4: Hamida Begum v. Maran (UK) Ltd. (Court of Appeal, 2021).......................................47
Lecture 11 notes...........................................................................................................................47
Class 12: Strategic Litigation & Justice in Globalized Context...........................................................49
Introductory podcast by Dr. Zülâl Muslu......................................................................................49
Reading 1: Robert Knox – Strategy and Tactics (2010, Finnish Yearbook of International Law)...49
Reading 2: Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion, and Mihretab Yemane Telke v. Nevsun
Resources Ltd. (Supreme Court of British Columbia, 2014) – notice of civil claim........................49
Reading 3: Dan Farber – “Environmental Lawyering Today” (Legal Planet blog, 2024)................49
Lecture 12 notes...........................................................................................................................50
, Perspectives on Law – Master Study Document
LL.B Global Law, Tilburg University (Year 2)
Fall Semester 2025
Section 1: Law’s authority
Class 1: Antigone (in Molenbeek)
Introductory podcast by prof. Morag Goodwin
Purpose of the podcast
o Introduced by Professor Morag Goodwin as part of the Perspectives
on Law course
o Aims not to summarize texts or dictate interpretations, but to:
Provide context for the readings
Offer guidance to help structure reflection and note-taking
Encourage critical engagement with diverse perspectives
Framing concept
o Reference to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk(The Danger
of a Single Story)
o Key idea: beware of approaching law or society through a single
perspective
o Sets the intellectual tone of the course: law is contested, plural,
and multi-voiced
Core text 1: Sophocles’ Antigone
o Themes and focus:
Law’s legitimacy: Creon (positive law) vs Antigone (natural
law)
Conflict between state authority and higher
moral/religious obligations
Reasonableness of perspectives, possibility of compromise,
and lessons for modern society
o Character analysis: reflect on Creon, Antigone, Ismene, and Hymen –
not only what they represent, but why they act as they do
o Relevance today:
Contemporary reimagining’s (e.g., Hartmann’s Molenbeek
Antigone, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire)
Questions of justice, perspective, gender in law
o Linked reading: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
Explores civil disobedience: when it is justified, how it
differs from criminality, and obligations in the face of unjust
law
Raises the distinction between laws unjust by design vs
unjust in application
