New critical legal thinking : law and the political / edited by Matthew Stone, Illan Rua Wall and Costas Douzinas.
2012
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Title
New critical legal thinking : law and the political / edited by Matthew Stone, Illan Rua Wall and Costas Douzinas.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : [Birkbeck Law Press], 2012, @2012.
Call Number
K487.P65 N49 2012
ISBN
9780415619578 (hbk.)
0415619572 (hbk.)
9780203114469 (ebk.)
0203114469 (ebk.)
0415619572 (hbk.)
9780203114469 (ebk.)
0203114469 (ebk.)
Description
x, 263 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)670473076
Summary
'New Critical Legal Thinking' articulates a newly-emergent stream of politically engaged contemporary critical legal scholarship. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the various contributors to this book draw on established theorists to understand contemporary legal matters.
Note
"New critical legal thinking: law and the political is published by Birkbeck Law Press. It is not a GlassHouse Book, as currently indicated on the cover and in the book's prelminary pages. Routledge sincerely apologises for this error, which will be corrected in future editions"--Erratum.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
Includes
Whyte, Jessica (Jessica Stephanie). Human rights.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Rouse Fund
Added Author
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Rouse Fund
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: Law, politics and the political / Costas Douzinas
1
pt. I
Resistance, dissensus and the subject
9
1.
Human rights: confronting governments? Michel Foucault and the right to intervene / Jessica Whyte
11
2.
Stasis Syntagma: the names and types of resistance / Costas Douzinas
32
3.
A different constituent power: Agamben and Tunisia / Illan Rua Wall
46
4.
Para-protest: reading a parody of police gesture as political protest with Giorgio Agamben / Connal Parsley
67
pt. II
The state, violence and biopolitics
89
5.
The distribution of death: notes towards a bio-political theory of criminal law / Ben Golder
91
6.
Disassembling legal form: ownership and the racial body / Brenna Bhandar
112
7.
Being, nothing, becoming: Hegel and the legal order / Tarik Kochi
128
8.
Faith and resignation: a journey through international law / Jason A. Beckett
145
9.
Economy or law? / Vincent Keter
167
pt. III
Futures of critical legal thinking
179
10.
Before the law, encounters at the borderline / Elena Loizidou
181
11.
Life beyond law: questioning a return to origins / Matthew Stone
198
12.
Notes for a novella of the future / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
212
13.
Towards a radical cosmopolitanism / Gilbert Leung
229
Bibliography
241
Index
256