New critical legal thinking : law and the political /

'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 to understand co...

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Other Authors: Stone, Matthew, 1981-, Wall, Illan Rua, Douzinas, Costas, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Birkbeck Law Press/Routledge, 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : law, politics and the political / Matthew Stone, Illan Rua Wall, Costas Douzinas
  • Human rights : confronting governments? Michel Fourcault and the right to interrvene / 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
  • 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
  • Faith and resignation : a journey through international law / Jason A. Beckett
  • Economy or law? / Vincent Keter
  • 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