Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Editor)

Overview

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline.

The book contains five sections:

• Spatiotemporal

• Sense

• Body

• Text

• Matter

Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area.

The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity.

Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317352990
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/06/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	554
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is Professor of Law & Theory and Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab at the University of Westminster, UK.

Table of Contents

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND THEORY

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos The and of Law and Theory

PART ONE: SPATIOTEMPORAL

1. Luis Eslava Dense Struggle: On Ghosts, Law, and the Global Order

2. Chris Butler Spatial abstraction, legal violence and the promise of appropriation

3. Sarah Keenan A prison around your ankle and a border in every street: Theorising law, space and the subject

4. Emily Grabham Praxiographies' of Time: Law, Temporalities, and Material Worlds

5. Lucy Finchett-Maddock Continua of (In)Justice

6. Olivia Barr Movement An Homage to Legal Drips, Wobbles & Perpetual Motion

PART TWO: SENSE

7. Andrea Pavoni Disenchanting senses: Law and the taste of the real

8. Nicola Masciandario Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law

9. Dragan Milovanovich Touching You, Touching Me In Law and Justice: Toward a Quantum Holographic Process-Informational Understanding

10. Illan rua Wall Turbulent legality: Sovereignty, Security and the Police

PART THREE: BODY

11. Elena Loizidou Sequences on Law and the Body

12. Laurent de Sutter On Resisting Bodies

13. Renisa Mawani Insect Wars: Bees, Bedbugs, and Biopolitics

14. Anna Grear Anthropocene "Time"? A reflection on temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’

15. Yoriko Otomo Making Lawful Animals

PART FOUR: TEXT

16. Honni van Rijswijk Law’s Aggressive Realism and Feminist Genres of Violence and Harm

17. Maria Aristodemou From Decaffeinated Democracy to Democracy in the Real in Ten (Lacanian) Sessions

18. Christopher Tomlins Why Law’s Objects Do Not Disappear: On History as Remainder

19. James Martel Must the law be a liar? Walter Benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law

20. Alain Pottage Literary Materiality

PART FIVE: MATTER

21. Emilie Cloatre and David Cowan Legalities and Materialities

22. Hyo Yoon Kang Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or how Matter Becomes Material

23. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos To Have to Do with the Law: An Essay

24. Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore On new model jurisprudence: the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan.

INDEX