Radically Legal

Joanna Kusiak is a Junior Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on urban land, housing crises and the progressive potential of the law. In 2021 she was one of the spokespeople for Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen, Berlin's successful referendum campaign to expropriate stock-listed landlords. In 2023 she won the Nine Dots Prize.

• 1. Taking the Tram Home: Prelude to Change; 2. We Are All Staying Put: Property and Freedom; 3. Berlin Becomes a High Risk Capital: The Law and the Movement; 4. Who Constitutes Power?: Checks and Balances; 5. Berlin Is the Greatest Extravaganza: Sexy and Solidaristic; 6. The Rule of Law Is Having a Midlife Crisis: Shadow and Difference; 7. Before the Law: Franz Kafka feat. DWE.

'In this fascinating book, Joanna Kusiak weaves together the story of how residential housing was turned into a financial asset, the struggle for recovering it for human dignity by invoking a long-forgotten provision of Germany's constitution, and her life as a social advocate, scholar and mother. She offers hope, a strong dose of humour, and a strategy for others in search of a more humane world.' Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School