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The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a...
To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of autonomic computing and ambient...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Legal Personhood 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. Contemporary feminist philosophy has much to say about the ways in which...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal...
To Be Published November 5th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism has come to mean for the law. Each contribution uses the resources of pragmatism to tackle fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
‘If God is dead, everything is permitted’, says Dostoyevsky’s Ivan Karamazov. ‘If God is dead, everything is prohibited’, responds Lacan. ‘I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ we say in a court of law. ‘In a court of law, the truth is precisely what we will not say...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Sovereignty and Liberty: The Foundations of Power is a study of the place of law in the idea of liberty. It addresses the reasons why law lies at the heart of a democratic model of government in order to consider how shifts in the conception of human existence have led to a crisis of our faith in...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Law as a Human Science argues for the reintroduction of crucial aspects of the humanist tradition in legal thinking. Interdisciplinary studies of law are now primarily understood as policy-oriented and socio-legal in their orientation; whilst the older ties between law and the humanities (with...
To Be Published April 19th 2014 by Routledge
