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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795631803321

Titolo

Interrupting the legal person / / edited by Austin Sarat, George Pavlich and Richard Mailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781802628630

9781802628647

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 pages)

Collana

Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; Volume 87A

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Sociological jurisprudence

Interruption (Rhetoric)

Persons (Law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Chapter 1: Reframing Colonial Law's Criminally Accused Persons -- Introduction -- An Example: Criminally Accusing an Individual Person -- Accusing Socially Located Individuals -- Revised Legal Fictions that Accuse Collective Persons -- Concluding Allusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered -- Context -- Introduction -- Gitxsan Legal Personhood -- Some of the Colonial Erosion -- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls -- Conclusion -- References -- Websites -- Court Cases -- Legislation -- Chapter 3: Foucault's Perhaps: Madness, Suffering and the Interruption of Legal Personality in Foucault, Supiot and Hegel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Foucault's Double-sided Perhaps -- 3. Foucault, Supiot and the Legal Person - A Tale of Two Homines Juridici -- 4. The Double-sided 'Perhaps' in the Interruption of the Legal Person -- 5. The Interruption of the Person in German Idealism -- 6. Homines Juridici -- References -- Chapter 4: Interrupting the Legal Person: Thinking Responsibility with Hannah Arendt -- 1. What Courts Demand -- 2. The Legal Person -- 3. Responsibility -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Role of



the Person in Modern Constitutional Law: How State-inflicted Harms Become Personal -- Introduction -- Dolphin Delivery: The Legal Denial of Political Science? -- Hutchinson and Petter on the 'Liberal Lie of the Charter' -- Malmo-levine: Criminalisation as a Self-inflicted Wound -- Conclusion: Between Two Systems -- References -- Chapter 6: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Foucault's Historical Method -- The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism -- Foucault's Territorial Assumptions -- Constituting an 'Indian' Population -- Biopolitics of Indian Status -- Conclusion.

References -- Chapter 7: Interrupted by Death: The Legal Personhood and Non-personhood of Corpses -- Introduction -- Benjamin: The Defiance of the Corpse -- Foucault: Letting Die -- In Re Widening of Beekman Street -- Cases after In Re Widening of Beekman Street -- The Corpse as Symbol: An 'Unsurpassedly Spectacular Gesture' -- Conclusion -- References -- Books and Articles -- Legal Cases -- US Law -- English Law.

Sommario/riassunto

This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. The chapters in this volume interrogate the role of the person and personhood in different contexts, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.