Igor Shoikhedbrod (St. Francis Xavier University): The Legal Thought of E.B. Pashukanis

DISCUSSANT: Mariana Dias Paes, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Society (AUP)

ABSTRACT:
The year 2024 marked the centenary anniversary for the publication of E.B. Pashukanis' General Theory of Law and Marxism, which has long been considered *the* text on Marxist jurisprudence. Pashukanis' book provoked the interest on Roscoe Pound, Lon Fuller, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Korsch, and more recently, G.A. Cohen, Arthur Ripstein, Jeremy Waldron, and Katharina Pistor, not to mention Richard Nixon! The talk will critically re-examine E.B. Pashukanis' understanding of the liberal legal form in light of new archival findings and the ongoing crisis of liberal jurisprudence.

BIO:
Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2018, his M.A in Political Science from York University in 2011His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation award in 2019 "for an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the American Political Science Association Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world." In 2021, Igor won the Domenico Losurdo International Prize for his essay, "From Hegel to Nietzsche: Domenico Losurdo's Complex Relationship with Liberalism."

Igor is currently working on three different book projects. The first book project is an edited collection of essays on Kojève and Law, which is forthcoming in Routledge's "Nomikoi" series. The second book project is a jointly edited and translated anthology, The Revolution of Law: Developments in Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1931, forthcoming with Brill. The final book project is a monograph that is concerned with global financial capitalism and crises of legal form.