Philosophy of Law Books

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1. Legal Theology: Law, Modernity and the Sacred

   By Peter Fitzpatrick

   Legal Theology provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56015-3 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

2. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements

   By Richard K Sherwin

   Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice, teaching, and theory of law. What happens to law when it takes on the life of an image on the screen? This question is no idle speculation. Law today...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-61293-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

   Edited by Maria Drakopoulou

   Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49760-2 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law

   By Jamie Murray

   Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well as considerable interest in legality in Deleuze & Guattari studies, this is...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49601-8 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

5. Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Justice

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. The exercise of the legal role and the scholarly understanding of legal texts were classically defined as ars iuris - an art of law - which drew on the panoply of humanist disciplines, from...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56021-4 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

6. Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

   By Edward Mussawir

   Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58996-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical

   By Amy Swiffen

   Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-57844-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Rethinking Law as Process: Creativity, Novelty, Change

   By James MacLean

   Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57540-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Justice, Literature and the Rule of Law: Kangaroo Courts

   By Desmond Manderson

   Justice, Literature, and the Rule of Law: Kangaroo Courts addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59827-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

    By Jacques De Ville

    Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account, and understanding, of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's broader deconstruction of the metaphysics of...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-61279-1 | Hardback (Routledge)