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62 produkter
Law, Labour and the Humanities
Contemporary European Perspectives
Av Tiziano Toracca, Angela Condello
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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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 …
Liberalizing Contracts
Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History
Häftad, 2019
862 kr
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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 …
Trials of Nature
The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost
Inbunden, 2020
2888 kr
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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 …
On Comics and Legal Aesthetics
Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing
Häftad, 2019
828 kr
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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, …
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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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 …
Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
Av Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis
Häftad, 2021
728 kr
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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 …
Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
Av Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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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 …
Trials of Nature
The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost
Häftad, 2022
795 kr
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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, Literature and the Power of Reading
Literalism and Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Av Suneel Mehmi
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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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 …
Novel Judgements
Legal Theory as Fiction
Inbunden, 2011
1749 kr
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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’ …
Novel Judgements
Legal Theory as Fiction
Häftad, 2011
577 kr
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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’ …
Land is the Source of the Law
A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence
Av C.F. Black
Inbunden, 2010
2311 kr
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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 …
Land is the Source of the Law
A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence
Av C.F. Black
Häftad, 2010
596 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare's Curse
The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama
Inbunden, 2013
3156 kr
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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 …
Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation
Inbunden, 2012
2311 kr
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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 …
Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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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 …
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power
A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale
Inbunden, 2010
2888 kr
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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 …
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power
A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale
Häftad, 2010
828 kr
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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 …
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque
Arabesques & Entanglements
Inbunden, 2011
2311 kr
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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 …
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque
Arabesques & Entanglements
Häftad, 2011
730 kr
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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 …
Scene of the Mass Crime
History, Film, and International Tribunals
Av Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich
Inbunden, 2012
2744 kr
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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 …
Scene of the Mass Crime
History, Film, and International Tribunals
Av Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich
Häftad, 2012
720 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare's Curse
The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama
Häftad, 2015
862 kr
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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. …
Genealogies of Legal Vision
Av Peter Goodrich, Valérie Hayaert
Häftad, 2015
787 kr
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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 …
Genealogies of Legal Vision
Av Peter Goodrich, Valérie Hayaert
Inbunden, 2015
2586 kr
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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 …
Law and Enjoyment
Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 2016
979 kr
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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 …
Wickedness and Crime
Laws of Homicide and Malice
Av Penny Crofts
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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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 …
Identity of the Constitutional Subject
Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community
Inbunden, 2009
2311 kr
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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 recent …
Identity of the Constitutional Subject
Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community
Häftad, 2009
596 kr
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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 recent …
Endowed
Regulating the Male Sexed Body
Inbunden, 2007
2820 kr
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Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with law’s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of women’s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon …
