Legal Theory

The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic...

This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, this book addresses issues such as the forced choice to enjoy the law, the biopolitics of tyranny, the enjoyment of law’s contingenc..

Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law...

Law and the Philosophy of Privacy draws upon contemporary feminist philosophy in order to consider the meaning of legal personhood, its relationship to human freedom and autonomy and its connection to what is classified as public and private...

This book engages with the traditional questions of legal theory but its analysis rests on the contention that ‘law’ is not confined to the state. Against the backdrop of analytical jurisprudence, the book draws theoretical connections and continuities between different experiences, spheres, and mod..

Chapter One:Fantasies of the Cut; Chapter Two: The Making of a Fantasy; Chapter Three: "I love you.. I mutilate you": Chapter Four: The remnant of the (mutilated) flesh; Chapter Five: The Law’s Clear Message; Chapter Six: The Sacred Flesh of Human Rights; Chapter Seven: The Torture of the Good; Chap..

Chapter One:Fantasies of the Cut; Chapter Two: The Making of a Fantasy; Chapter Three: "I love you.. I mutilate you": Chapter Four: The remnant of the (mutilated) flesh; Chapter Five: The Law’s Clear Message; Chapter Six: The Sacred Flesh of Human Rights; Chapter Seven: The Torture of the Good; Chap..

Bringing together leading academics hailing from different cultural and scholarly horizons, this book revisits legal hermeneutics by making particular reference to philosophy, sociology and linguistics. On the assumption that theory has much to teach law, that theory motivates and enables, the writi..

Law’s Trace takes Derrida's reading of Hegel as its point of departure in order to provide a definitive account of the political importance of deconstruction...

Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death. Drawing on key cases from the United Kingdom and Canada, the book focuses on the problematic paternalism of legal decisions that currently deny assisted dying. Challenging t..

This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education, synthesizing and developing nearly thirty years of Professor Sampford’s critical thought, analysis and academic leadership. First, the book explains the significance of the ‘critica..

This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education, synthesizing and developing nearly thirty years of Professor Sampford’s critical thought, analysis and academic leadership. First, the book explains the significance of the ‘critica..