Overview

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, such as Hegel, Lacan, and Foucault, in order to understand contemporary legal matters, such as the war on terror, the recent global economic crisis and the emergence of biopolitics. The contributions instantiate the fact that a new, timely and cohesive 'school' of political legal scholarship has come into being: one which critically interrogates, and intervenes in, the contemporary relationship between law and power.

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Author:   Matthew Stone ,  Illan Wall (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Costas Douzinas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Birkbeck Law Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780415619578

ISBN 10:   0415619572
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   05 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Resistance, Dissensus and the Subject: Human Rights: Confronting Governments?, Jessica Whyte; Stasis Syntagma: The Names and Types of Resistance,Costas Douzinas; A Different Constituent Power: Agamben & Tunisia, Illan rua Wall; Para-protest: Reading a Parody of Police Gesture as Political Protest with Giorgio Agamben, Connal Parsley; Part 2: The State, Violence and Biopolitics: The Distribution of Death: Notes Towards a Bio-political Theory of Criminal Law, Ben Golder; Disassembling Legal Form: Ownership and the Racial Body, Brenna Bhandar; Being, Nothing, Becoming: Hegel and the Legal Order,Tarik Kochi; Critical Legal Thought in Public International Law, Jason A. Beckett; Economy or law?,Vincent Keter; Part 3: Futures of Critical Legal Thinking: Before the Law, Encounters at the Borderline, Elena Loizidou; Life Beyond Law: Questioning a Return to Origins, Matthew Stone; Notes for a Novella of the Future, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera;Towards a Radical Cosmopolitanism, Gilbert Leung.

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