Daniel Matthews shows how sovereignty - the organising principle for modern law and politics - depends on a distinctive aesthetics that ensures that we see, feel and order the world in such a way that keeps the realities of climate change and ecol...Lasīt vairāk
Examines the way the corporation a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition was imagined in the nineteenth-century historical imagination. Stefanie Mueller traces the ways in which literary a...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399515313)
A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and th...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474455664)
Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agambens work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach,...Lasīt vairāk
Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships: between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square. Using the fore...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developm...Lasīt vairāk
Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, I, Robot and The Hobbit, Timothy Peters explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that make strange the world of the vi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399505000)
This book examines the way the corporation - a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition - was imagined in the nineteenth century historical imagination.Stefanie Mueller traces the ways in which literary an...Lasīt vairāk
This book assesses the credibility of this arresting claim in the immediate context of contemporary British theatre by investigating the place and purpose of law in a range of modern dramatic settings and writings. The first...Lasīt vairāk
Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain. Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474487443)
Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square. They draw on a range of case...Lasīt vairāk
By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together the outlaw literature and espionage literature Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state powe...Lasīt vairāk
By accessing penal history through the mediator of individual memory authors can be seen to depict the cumulative dialogue between the English common law and its cultural representations across historical time. Offering legal readings of works by...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Dec-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474485708)
Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Oct-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474424004)
Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, I, Robot and The Hobbit, Timothy Peters explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that make strange the world of the vi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474455305)
Daniel Matthews shows how sovereignty - the organising principle for modern law and politics - depends on a distinctive aesthetics that ensures that we see, feel and order the world in such a way that keeps the realities of climate change and ecol...Lasīt vairāk
Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian m...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474450140)
This book assesses the credibility of this arresting claim in the immediate context of contemporary British theatre by investigating the place and purpose of law in a range of modern dramatic settings and writings. The first...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474442046)
Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain. Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences o...Lasīt vairāk
Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental-European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic inter...Lasīt vairāk
