Thinking Through the Body of the Law - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814715451 ISBN 13 : 9780814715451

Editeur : New York University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes, and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This subjected body is necessary for the law's existence.
Thinking Through the Body of the Law reconceives the role of the body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity, taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual harassment.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Pheng Cheah teaches in the English Department, Cornell University.

David Fraser teaches in the Faculty of Law, the University of Sydney. Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe Univ"

Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814715451
• ISBN 13: 9780814715451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Cheah Pheng, Fraser David, Grbich Judith
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