Legal Theory

This is the first book to consider German sociologist Niklas Luhmann's social theory in a critical legal context. His theory is introduced here both in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically, and the book reveals the aporetic structure of autopoiesis, aligning it with postmodern..

Tapping into the recent ‘turn’ towards literary, cultural and visual concerns in legal studies, this book examines the critical value that comics can bring to law. Situated in-between the rational, textual, aesthetic and the visual, comics are, this book demonstrates, uniquely able to explore the li..

This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education in the history of the Upjohn Lectures, an annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and changes in the field._x005F_x000D_ Presented ..

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism...

Privacy, Due process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology engages with the rapidly developing computational aspects of our world – including data mining, behavioural advertising, iGovernment, profiling for intelligence, customer relationship management..

Privacy, Due process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology engages with the rapidly developing computational aspects of our world – including data mining, behavioural advertising, iGovernment, profiling for intelligence, customer relationship management..

Privacy, Due process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology engages with the rapidly developing computational aspects of our world – including data mining, behavioural advertising, iGovernment, profiling for intelligence, customer relationship management..

This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. Bringing together specialists and scholars in different areas of law, critical theory and philosophy, this rethinking of law and socio-legal studies through Rancière provides an original and important engagement wit..

This book is the first collection in English to fully address the relevance of Foucault’s thought for law. The collection provides an in-depth analysis of Foucault’s thought as it pertains to the crucial questions of law, government and rights, and includes contributions from acknowledged experts on..

Reading Modern Law addresses the identification and elaboration of a critical methodology for reading and writing about law in modernity. The essays in this volume are all direct or oblique engagements with the work of Peter Fitzpatrick and chart a mode of resisting the imperialism of social scienti..

Reading The Legal Case: Cross-Currents in Law and the Humanities re-examines the seemingly familiar notion of a ‘legal case’ by exploring the histories, practices, conventions and rhetoric of ‘case law’...

Reading The Legal Case: Cross-Currents in Law and the Humanities re-examines the seemingly familiar notion of a ‘legal case’ by exploring the histories, practices, conventions and rhetoric of ‘case law’...