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1. Lex Amicitia: An Anthropology of the Law of Amity

   By Peter Goodrich

   Lex Amicitia draws a long history of the law of friendship – from Aristotle to Derrida – into a contemporary context: scouring the backrooms, bars and ill-lit alcoves, the corridors and side-rooms where the interior engine of institutional decisions operates. The intimate public sphere is fueled by...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Scene of the Mass Crime

   History, Film, and International Tribunals

   Edited by Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich

   Series: Discourses of Law

   The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Law, Text, Terror

   Edited by Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack, Anton Schutz

   The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Nietzsche and Legal Theory

   Half-Written Laws

   By Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde

   Series: Discourses of Law

   Published September 28th 2005 by Routledge
5. Merlin

   A Casebook

   Edited by Peter H. Goodrich

   Series: Arthurian Characters and Themes

   Published June 16th 2003 by Routledge
6. Law in the Courts of Love

   Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences

   By Peter Goodrich

   Published April 3rd 1996 by Routledge
7. Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies

   The Legality of the Contingent

   Edited by Costas Douzinas, Peter Goodrich, Yifat Hachamovitch

   This timely and assured book provides a unique guide to critical legal studies which is one of the most exciting developments within contemporary jurisprudence. It is the first book to systematically apply a critical philosophy to the substance of common law. The book develops a coruscating and...

   Published May 18th 1994 by Routledge