1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

Edited By Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Copyright 2019
    554 Pages
    by Routledge

    554 Pages
    by Routledge

    This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline.





    The book contains five sections:



    • Spatiotemporal



    • Sense



    • Body



    • Text



    • Matter





    Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area.





    The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity.



    Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138956469_oachapter21.pdf



    RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND THEORY

    Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.)

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos The and of Law and Theory

    PART ONE: SPATIOTEMPORAL

    1. Luis Eslava Dense Struggle: On Ghosts, Law, and the Global Order

    2. Chris Butler Spatial abstraction, legal violence and the promise of appropriation

    3. Sarah Keenan A prison around your ankle and a border in every street: Theorising law, space and the subject

    4. Emily Grabham Praxiographies' of Time: Law, Temporalities, and Material Worlds

    5. Lucy Finchett-Maddock Continua of (In)Justice

    6. Olivia Barr Movement An Homage to Legal Drips, Wobbles & Perpetual Motion

    PART TWO: SENSE

    7. Andrea Pavoni Disenchanting senses: Law and the taste of the real

    8. Nicola Masciandario Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law

    9. Dragan Milovanovich Touching You, Touching Me In Law and Justice: Toward a Quantum Holographic Process-Informational Understanding

    10. Illan rua Wall Turbulent legality: Sovereignty, Security and the Police

    PART THREE: BODY

    11. Elena Loizidou Sequences on Law and the Body

    12. Laurent de Sutter On Resisting Bodies

    13. Renisa Mawani Insect Wars: Bees, Bedbugs, and Biopolitics

    14. Anna Grear Anthropocene "Time"? A reflection on temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’

    15. Yoriko Otomo Making Lawful Animals

    PART FOUR: TEXT

    16. Honni van Rijswijk Law’s Aggressive Realism and Feminist Genres of Violence and Harm

    17. Maria Aristodemou From Decaffeinated Democracy to Democracy in the Real in Ten (Lacanian) Sessions

    18. Christopher Tomlins Why Law’s Objects Do Not Disappear: On History as Remainder

    19. James Martel Must the law be a liar? Walter Benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law

    20. Alain Pottage Literary Materiality

    PART FIVE: MATTER

    21. Emilie Cloatre and David Cowan Legalities and Materialities

    22. Hyo Yoon Kang Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or how Matter Becomes Material

    23. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos To Have to Do with the Law: An Essay

    24. Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore On new model jurisprudence: the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan.

    INDEX

    Biography



    Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is Professor of Law & Theory and Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab at the University of Westminster, UK.