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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818648103321

Titolo

New critical legal thinking : law and the political / / edited by Matthew Stone, Illan Rua Wall and Costas Douzinas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-29120-2

0-203-11446-9

1-283-71336-5

1-136-29121-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

A GlassHouse book

Altri autori (Persone)

DouzinasCostas <1951->

StoneMatthew <1981->

WallIllan Rua

WhyteJessica (Jessica Stephanie)

Disciplina

340/.11

Soggetti

Law - Political aspects

Critical legal studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 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 -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation



between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the various contributors to this book draw on political theorists and continental philosophers in order to engage with current legal problematics, such as the recent global economic crisis, the Arab spring and th