About this Event
Join Dr Harry Hobbs on Monday 9th November at 7pm, as he chats to Melissa Demian, about his and Stephen Young's new book Outlawed: Responding to the Global Rise of Sovereign Citizens and Legal Conspiracies. Pseudolaw is a fast-growing movement built on conspiracy theories, quasilegal rituals and the promise that ordinary people can outsmart governments.
Outlawed takes readers deep inside a world of courtroom confrontations, YouTube gurus, viral traffic stops, online radicalisation and anti-government extremism. It traces the movement from its 19th-century origins to deadly shootings, attempted coups and bizarre court cases involving doppelgangers, secret trusts and accusations of treason and sorcery.
More than a book about fringe beliefs, this is an exploration of how pseudolaw thrives in times of inequality, crisis and distrust - and why people are willing to believe the system is rigged against them. Outlawed argues that defeating pseudolaw requires confronting the social, economic and legal failures that make it so seductive in the first place.
Disturbing and darkly funny, this is the story of how conspiracy became law's outlaw twin.
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Waterstones, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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