1st Edition

Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

Edited By Thomas Giddens, Luca Siliquini-Cinelli Copyright 2023
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to... Read more

List of contributors

Introduction

THOMAS GIDDENS

PART I

Normative Resistance

1 Educating for the End of a Necropolitical World: What Happens Beyond Decolonisation in Legal Education?

FOLUKE I ADEBISI

2 Centring Feminist and Queer Experiences in the Law School: Legal Zines as a Humanising Pedagogy

CHRIS ASHFORD, LAURA GRAHAM, AND SAMANTHA RASIAH

3 School and Fundamental Rights: An Active Responsible Citizenship

JULIANA ZANGANELLI AND DAURY FABRIZ

4 The Value of Twitter in Building a Community of Students: Does This Go Toward or Against the Concept of ‘Human’ Students?

KATHERINE LANGLEY

5 The Role of Legal Educators in Disruption of Hierarchies within Education and the Profession

KRYSS MACLEOD

PART II

Internal Resistance

6 Law Teacher as Poet: Transcending the Mechanics of Legal Education

PRUE VINES 

7 TRAMA: Stories of Situated Pedagogy in Legal Education

JULIA AVILA FRANZONI

8 The Comedy of Corpus Iuris

PETER GOODRICH

9 Teaching Cultural Legal Studies

TIMOTHY D PETERS AND KAREN CRAWLEY

10 Conversation as Pedagogy: The Use of Popular Stories in the Identity Projects of Law Students

CASSANDRA SHARP

PART III

Posthuman Resistance

11 Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Knowledge and Legal Education: A Critical Appraisal

LUCA SILIQUINI-CINELLI

12 Posthumanist Legal Education: Learning to Entangle Human Law with Its More-Than-Human World

KATE GALLOWAY

13 Law as Relation and the Co-emergence of Beings: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Legal Education

IVAN DARIO VARGAS RONCANCIO

14 Study of Law Without Ends

FRANCESCO FORZANI

Index

Biography

Thomas Giddens is Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Dundee, UK.

Luca Siliquini-Cinelli is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.

"Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education is an excellently generative text that will encourage law teachers to consider what it means to resist in the classroom, in the wider legal academy and beyond. The edited collection will inspire reflections on the extent to which legal educators are already resisting and to think on what additional ways of describing resistance are helpful in how it is achieved in legal education, such as refusals, subversions or even overhauls. This volume and its counterpart, Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education, tessellate beautifully and underline that in order to resist an aspect of legal education, one must be deeply cognisant of its structures. Finally, both texts are an exemplary demonstration of writing about the theory and philosophy of legal education." Aysha Mazhar, Keele School of Law, UK, The Law Teacher 2024