1st Edition

Law, Obligation, Community

Edited By Daniel Matthews, Scott Veitch Copyright 2018
292 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Against an ever-expanding and diversifying ‘rights talk’, this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. Its premise is that obligation has a primacy ahead of rights, because rights attach to practices and modes of being that are already saturated with obligations. Obligations thus lie at the core not just of law but of... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Daniel Matthews and Scott Veitch

Part I The Priority of Obligations

1 Dogma, or the deep rootedness of Obligation

Emilios Christodoulidis

2 Why should I listen to my conscience? Equity and the question of ontological obligation

Matt Stone

3 The Origin of Obligations: Towards a Fundamental Phenomenology of Legal and Moral Obligation

Johan van der Walt

Part II Instituting Obligations

4 On the Company’s Bounded Sense of Social Obligation

Lilian Moncrieff

5 Duty Free

Scott Veitch

6 History, Alterity and Obligation: Toward a Genealogy of the Co-operative

Tara Mulqueen

7 Sovereignty, Affect and Being-Bound

Stacy Douglas and Daniel Matthews

Part III The Force of Obligations

8 Hybrid legalities: On Obligation and Law’s Immanent Materiology

Kyle McGee

9 The Biographical Core of Law: Privacy, Personhood and the Bounds of Obligation

Marcelo Thompson

Part IV Civility, Office, and the Bonds of Community

10 Civility, Obligation and Criminal Law

Lindsay Farmer

11 Obligations of Office

Shaun McVeigh

12 Academic Freedom Academic Obligation

Carrol Clarkson

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Biography

Daniel Matthews and Scott Veitch are both based in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.