Overview

Against an ever-expanding and diversifying ‘rights talk’, this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. Its premise is that obligation has a primacy ahead of rights, because rights attach to practices and modes of being that are already saturated with obligations. Obligations thus lie at the core not just of law but of community. Yet the distinctive meanings, range and situations of obligation have tended to remain under-theorised in legal scholarship. In response, this book examines the sense in which we are multiply ‘bound beings’, to law and legal institutions, as much as we are to place, community, memory and the various social institutions that give shape to collective life. Sharing this set of concerns, each of the international group of scholars contributing to this volume traces the specificity of the binding force of obligations, their techniques and modes of expression, as well as their centrally important role in giving form to lawful relations. Together they provide an innovative and challenging contribution to legal scholarship: one that will also be of relevance to those working in politics, philosophy and social theory.

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Author:   Daniel Matthews ,  Scott Veitch (University of Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367862657

ISBN 10:   0367862654
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   06 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction Daniel Matthews and Scott Veitch Part I The Priority of Obligations 1 Dogma, or the deep rootedness of Obligation Emilios Christodoulidis 2 Why should I listen to my conscience? Equity and the question of ontological obligation Matt Stone 3 The Origin of Obligations: Towards a Fundamental Phenomenology of Legal and Moral Obligation Johan van der Walt Part II Instituting Obligations 4 On the Company’s Bounded Sense of Social Obligation Lilian Moncrieff 5 Duty Free Scott Veitch 6 History, Alterity and Obligation: Toward a Genealogy of the Co-operative Tara Mulqueen 7 Sovereignty, Affect and Being-Bound Stacy Douglas and Daniel Matthews Part III The Force of Obligations 8 Hybrid legalities: On Obligation and Law’s Immanent Materiology Kyle McGee 9 The Biographical Core of Law: Privacy, Personhood and the Bounds of Obligation Marcelo Thompson Part IV Civility, Office, and the Bonds of Community 10 Civility, Obligation and Criminal Law Lindsay Farmer 11 Obligations of Office Shaun McVeigh 12 Academic Freedom Academic Obligation Carrol Clarkson INDEX

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Daniel Matthews and Scott Veitch are both based in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.

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