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 and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Daniel Hourigan
December 20, 2016
This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basis for a wider understanding of law, beyond the strictures of legal institutions and professional ...
Genealogies of Legal Vision
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Goodrich, Valérie Hayaert
August 06, 2015
It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance ...
Shakespeare's Curse
1st Edition
By Bjoern Quiring
June 08, 2015
Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and King Lear in order to analyse the persistence of imprecations in the discourses of modernity. ...
Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice
1st Edition
By Penny Crofts
May 21, 2015
The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and ...
Shakespeare's Curse: The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama
1st Edition
By Björn Quiring
December 13, 2013
Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse:The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and King Lear in order to analyse the ...
The Scene of the Mass Crime: History, Film, and International Tribunals
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich
February 21, 2013
The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been ...
Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation
1st Edition
By Danielle Tyson
August 27, 2012
The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions, Sex, Culpability ...
Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction
1st Edition
By William P. MacNeil
October 13, 2011
Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel judgements departs from ‘socio-legal’ studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This texts ‘theoretical turn’ ...
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements
1st Edition
By Richard K Sherwin
July 26, 2011
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From videos documenting crimes and accidents...
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale
1st Edition
By Anselm Haverkamp
November 19, 2010
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective on ...
The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence
1st Edition
By C.F. Black
November 12, 2010
The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a ‘dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence’ in which individuals are characterised by ...
The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community
1st Edition
By Michel Rosenfeld
November 11, 2009
The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively ...