Dr Eric Wilson - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Eric Wilson has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, an LLB from the University of British Columbia and an LLM from the University of Washington.  He was awarded the SJD from Melbourne in 2005.  His current subject interests are critical legal theory, criminology, and the history and philosophy of international law.

Research & Supervision Interests

My primary areas of research are critical theory, radical criminology, and critical jurisprudence. I also have a strong interest in the history and philosophy of international law. My work is highly inter-disciplinary and is strongly centered upon theory. At the moment, I am interested in applying speculative realism to criminological discourse. 

In terms of supervising students on both the undergraduate and graduate levels, I would be most interested in working on a thesis in the fields of critical criminolgy and critical legal theory. I am also interested in supervising inter-disciplinary projects that break down the demarcations, both formal and informal, between jurisprudence and other academic disciplines: Law and History; Law and International Relations; Law and Anthropology; Law and Cultural Studies.

Keywords

critical theory, radical criminology, critical jurisprudence

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF JURIDICAL SCIENCE/S J D

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2005

LAW/LL M

Institution: University of Washington

Year awarded: 1998

LAW/LL B

Institution: University of British Columbia

Year awarded: 1997

HISTORY

Institution: Cambridge University

Year awarded: 1991

HISTORY/M A

Institution: Dalhousie University

Year awarded: 1985

HISTORY/B A HON

Institution: Dalhousie University

Year awarded: 1983

Publications

Books

Wilson, E. (ed), 2012, The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex, Ashgate, Farnham UK.

Wilson, E. (ed), 2009, Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty, Pluto Press, New York, USA.

Wilson, E., 2008, The Savage Republic: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony within the Early Modern World-System (c.1600-1619), Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden The Netherlands.

Book Chapters

Wilson, E., 2012, Crimes against reality: parapolitics, simulation, power crime, in New Directions in Criminological Theory, eds Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, Routledge, London UK, pp. 292-316.

Wilson, E., 2009, Deconstructing the shadows, in Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty, eds Eric Wilson, Pluto Press, New York, USA, pp. 13-55.

Wilson, E., 2009, The VOC, Corporate Sovereignty and the Republican Sub-Text of De iure praedae, in Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae, eds Hans W. Blom, Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 310-340.

Journal Articles

Wilson, E., 2012, Criminogenic cyber-capitalism: Paul Virilio, simulation, and the global financial crisis, Critical Criminology [P], vol 20, issue 3, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 249-274.

Wilson, E., 2011, Magnum Latrocinium and private avengers: Carl Schmitt and Hugo Grotius on piracy, Leidschrift [P], vol 26, issue 3, Stichting Leidschrift, The Netherlands, pp. 75-97.

Wilson, E., 2010, "The dangerous classes": Hugo Grotius and seventeenth-century piracy as a primitive anti-systemic movement, The Journal of Philosophical Economics [E], vol 4, issue 1, Rosetti Educational, Bucharest, Romania, pp. 146-183.

Wilson, E., 2010, Making the world safe for Holland: De Indis of Hugo Grotius and international law as geoculture, Review [P], vol 32, issue 3, Ferdinand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghampton, NY, USA, pp. 239-287.

Wilson, E., 2009, Speed/pure war/power crime: Paul Virilio on the criminogenic accident and the virtual disappearance of the suicidal state, Crime, Law and Social Change [P], vol 51, issue 3-4 April 2009, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 413-434.

Wilson, E., 2009, The republic of heterology: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, deconstruction and the political ontology of the Dutch State, Journal of the Philosophy of International Law [P], vol 3, ElectronicPublications.org Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 57-76.

Wilson, E., 2008, The VOC, Corporate Sovereignty and the Republican Sub-Text of De iure praedae, Grotiana, vol 26-28, issue 1, Brill, Leiden The Netherlands, pp. 310-340.

Wilson, E.M., 2006, Erasing the corporate sovereign: inter-textuality and an alternative explanation for the publication of Hugo Grotius' Mare Liberum (1609), Itinerario, vol 30, issue 2, Institute for the History of European Expansion (IGEER), Department of History, Leiden University, Leiden The Netherlands, pp. 78-103.

Wilson, E.M., 2006, On heterogeneity and the naming of De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Journal of the Philosophy of International Law, vol 1, issue 1, ElectronicPublications.org Ltd, UK, pp. 72-115.

Wilson, E.M., 2006, Unlawful territorial situations in international law: reconciling effectiveness, legality and legitimacy, Melbourne Journal of International law, vol 7, issue 2, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law, Australia, pp. 437-448.

Wilson, E.M., 2003, Mare Liberum and Opinio Juris: a Grotian reading of the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, Monash University Law Review, vol 28, issue 2, Faculty of Law Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 299-326.

Wilson, E.M., 2001, Anatomy of FDI failure: foreign direct investment and the Sino-Vietnamese experience of Total War, The Australian Journal of Asian Law, vol 3, issue 2, The Federation Press, Leichhardt NSW Australia, pp. 107-134.

Teaching Commitment

Research and writing (Sem 2/T3) (LAW1104)

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Khoo, S.

Program of Study:

Challenging liberal constructs: critical accounts of the Great Lakes crisis. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Wilson, E (Main), Mfodwo, K (Associate).