1st Edition

Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

By Edward Mussawir Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 expression and the representation of law. Deleuze is taken as offering not just an important... Read more

Preface  1. Deleuze and Jurisdiction: Expressionism in Jurisprudence  Part 1: Masks and Personal Jurisdiction  2. Personal Jurisdiction: The ‘Method of Dramatization’ in the Law of Persons  3. Minority and Personal Jurisdiction: Judging Sex in Re Alex  4. Persons of Animal Law  Part 2: Rights and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction  5. Deleuze, The Law of Things and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction  6. To Put to Flight: The Right of Possession  Part 3: Actions and Procedure  7. The Activity of Judgment: Law of Actions and the Procedural Genre of Jurisprudence  8. Jurisdiction of Control: Judgment and Procedural Forms in Thomas v Mowbray  9. The Locality of Law: Jurisdiction in Deleuze

Biography

Edward Mussawir is based in the Department of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.