No. 3 (2023): Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling

The third volume of Undecidabilities and Law “takes place” under the sign of exception, an exception that we believe is nevertheless justified and productive. For the first time, we have a special issue based on a colloquium (Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling, Coimbra, May 26th to 28th 2022), which is thus illuminated by the precious and unrepeatable moment that this meeting allowed — even if the final outcome is intended to be less a faithful reconstruction of what happened (of what was then effectively said and discussed) than the testimony of the dialogue and intertwined research that its unforgettable occasio set in motion (and that the following rewriting of the chapters corroborates). It is the strength of this very special context (or succession of contexts) that justifies, for example, maintaining in its entirety the moving intervention with which James Boyd White, speaking albeit remotely from the other margin of the Atlantic, privileged us at the opening of this meeting (see, infra, Introductory Note).