1st Edition
The Structural Limits of the Law The Event Horizon of Legality
By Stephen M. Young
Copyright 2025
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular ‘events’ that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.
Litigation is the main legal process that constructs events through a narrative that describes what happened and prescribes what should happen. Courts are theatres with competing stories and... Read more
Introduction: Events, Orders, and Borders 1. Legal Events: The Interrelated Construction of Individual and Political Bodies 2. Domestic Bodies, Criminal Bodies: the McGirt event 3. Mining Progress in International Law: the Nevsun event 4. Farming the Fruits of Empire: the Strathboss event 5. Hierarchical Reconstruction, Circulating Devaluation 6. Resisting Authority, Constructing Hierarchy 7. Remarks
Biography
Stephen M. Young is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
