THE KILLING OF AL-BAGHDADI. TRANSLATING FROM LIBERAL LEGALITY TO NECROPOLITICAL LAW

On 27 October 2019, President Trump announced that US Special Forces had killed the leader of ISIS. What does this killing – an extraterritorial, extrajudicial assassination – mean for law? This lecture argues that events like this killing effect a translation of liberal legality into necropolitical law.

IFK_Live (Zoom Lecture) of Jothie Rajah.