1st Edition

Towards a Theatrical Jurisprudence

By Marett Leiboff Copyright 2019
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to theatre theory and practice to ground a theatrical jurisprudence, taking its cues from Han-Thies... Read more

List of illustrations



Preface



Acknowledgments



Before you turn the page …



1 The theatrical as jurisprudence



2 Law’s dramatic pretence



3 Law’s lost presence



4 The moral theatre



5 The encounter



6 Reclaiming the holy lawyer



7 Towards a theatrical jurisprudence



Bibliography



Index

Biography

Marett Leiboff is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia.