GlassHouse

Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious

Law, Literature and Culture

By David Gurnham

Sex and sexuality, and the dangers associated with them, provoke contradictory and ambivalent reactions including fascination, fear, revulsion and excitement. Such ambivalences are well-known stimulants of both creative and juridical activity, which in different ways respond to the problems of...

To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

Making Crime Television

Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast

By Anita Lam

This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television:...

To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by Routledge

Justice as Improvisation

The Law of the Extempore

By Sara Ramshaw

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular ‘other’. The same can be...

Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge

The Ends of History

Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols

Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the ‘end of history’was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market...

Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge

The Experience of Tragic Judgment

By Julen Etxabe

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual...

Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge

The Concept of Injustice

By Eric Heinze

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice. Misled by the word’s etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the...

Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

The Legacy of Modernism

By Desmond Manderson

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf,...

Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

Reading The Legal Case

Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities

Edited by Marco Wan

This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...

Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge

Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation

By Susanna Hovinheimo

Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation addresses how it is that legal texts -laws, statutes and regulations – can, and do have meaning. Conventionally, legal decisions are justified with reference to language. But since language is always open to interpretation, and so cannot fully justify...

Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge

Law and Art

Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics

Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook...

Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish

The Scene of Violence

Cinema, Crime, Affect

By Alison Young

In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator’s encounter with the cinematic scene of violence – rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed...

Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish

Law, Text, Terror

Edited by Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack, Anton Schutz

The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the...

Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge-Cavendish

Law's Moving Image

Edited by Leslie Moran, Elena Loizidou, Ian Christie, Emma Sandon

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film through three main themes: A Fantastic Jurisprudence explores representations of law in law Law, Aesthetics and Visual...

Published June 2nd 2004 by Routledge-Cavendish