160 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

156 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

160 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

This book takes its cue from the observation that jurisdiction - as the speech of law - articulates or proclaims law. Without jurisdiction the law would be speechless, without authority and authorisation. So too would be critics who approach the law or want to live lawfully. As a field of legal knowledge and legal practice, jurisdiction is concerned with the modes of authority and the manner of... Read more

Introduction; The Forms of Jurisdiction; Authority and Authorisation: Sovereignty, Territory, Jurisdiction; Technologies of Jurisdiction; Personal Jurisdiction and Legal Persons: The End of Life; Jurisdictional Encounters and the Meeting of Laws; Jurisdiction, Events and the International; Conclusions: Responsibility and the Forms of Law.

Biography

Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She writes at the intersections of legal history, native title and jurisprudence. Her most recent book is Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter (eds) Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (NY Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

Shaun McVeigh is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School , University of Melbourne. He has research interests in the fields of jurisprudence, legal ethics and health care. He is editor of the book Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).