1st Edition

Justice as Improvisation The Law of the Extempore

By Sara Ramshaw Copyright 2013
204 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular ‘other’. The same can be said of justice. This book interrogates this relationship by highlighting the parallels between the... Read more

1. Introduction: the law of the extempore;  2.The rise and reform of the New York City cabaret laws; 3. Deconstructive legal improvisation; 4.The ‘wildness’ of jazz improvisation; 5. Demystifying improvisation; 6. The structure-freedom paradox in law; 7.Justice as improvisation

Biography

Sara Ramshaw is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast. She holds a LLB and LLM from the University of British Columbia, a PhD from Birkbeck School of Law, and is a former Postdoctoral Fellow with the ‘Improvisation, Community and Social Practice’ project in Canada.