Discourses of Law
About the Book Series
This successful and exciting series seeks to publish the most innovative scholarship at the intersection of law, philosophy and social theory. The books published in the series are distinctive by virtue of exploring the boundaries of legal thought. The work that this series seeks to promote is marked most strongly by the drive to open up new perspectives on the relation between law and other disciplines. The series has also been unique in its commitment to international and comparative perspectives upon an increasingly global legal order. Of particular interest in a contemporary context, the series has concentrated upon the introduction and translation of continental traditions of theory and law.
Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist
1st Edition
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By Peter Goodrich, Shaun Mcveigh
December 31, 2025
The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organized around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take ...
On Flat Ontologies and Law
1st Edition
By Michał Dudek
December 26, 2025
This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat ontologies challenges the binarism that has maintained the separation of culture from nature, and the ...
Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion
1st Edition
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By Vittoria Becci, Alexia Katsiginis, Edward Van Daalen
December 31, 2024
This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields. The contributors to this book consider the need to turn to film and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. The chapters ...
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
1st Edition
By Agata Fijalkowski
November 28, 2024
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a...
Practice Theory and Law: On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences
1st Edition
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By Maciej Dybowski, Weronika Dzięgielewska, Wojciech Rzepiński
October 02, 2024
This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice. Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood as one among other social practices. Including perspectives from philosophers ...
Law, Literature and the Power of Reading: Literalism and Photography in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Suneel Mehmi
May 31, 2023
At the intersection of law, literature and history, this book interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes our conceptions of what the law is...
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost
1st Edition
By Björn Quiring
August 01, 2022
Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In an enormous variety of texts, from the Greek ...
Law, Labour and the Humanities: Contemporary European Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tiziano Toracca, Angela Condello
June 30, 2021
The ontology of work and the economics of value underpin the legal institution, with the existence of modern law predicated upon the subject as labourer. In contemporary Europe, labour is more than a mere economic relationship. Indeed, labour occupies a central position in human existence: since ...
The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
1st Edition
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By Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis
June 29, 2021
Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved...
On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing
1st Edition
By Thomas Giddens
July 25, 2019
What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about – and reshape – the form of law. Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, ...
Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History
1st Edition
By Anat Rosenberg
January 23, 2019
In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most ...
Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images
1st Edition
By Pierre Legendre
October 31, 2018
In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre’s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de ...