1st Edition

Neoliberal Legality Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project

Edited By Honor Brabazon Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Neoliberalism has been studied as a political ideology, an historical moment, an economic programme, an institutional model, and a totalising political project. Yet the role of law in the neoliberal story has been relatively neglected, and the idea of neoliberalism as a juridical project has yet to be considered. That is: neoliberal law and its interrelations with neoliberal politics and... Read more

Introduction, Honor Brabazon 1. Law, Development, and Political Closure Under Neoliberalism, Tor Krever 2. Neoliberalism and Economic Sovereignty: Property, Contracts, and Foreign Investment Relations, Nicolás Perrone 3. Neoliberal Law and Regulation, Andrés Palacios Lleras 4. Law, Social Policy, and the Neoliberal State, Kenneth Veitch 5. Law, Neoliberalism, and the Constitution of Political Subjectivity: The Case of Organised Labour, Robert Knox 6. Continuity and Rupture in Restraining the Right to Strike, Ntina Tzouvala 7. The Promise of Rights: International Indigenous Rights in the Neoliberal Era, Kristin Ciupa 8.. Dissent in a Juridified Political Sphere, Honor Brabazon 9. Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism, Vanja Hamzić

Biography

Honor Brabazon is an Assistant Professor, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.