...Claude Lefort Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 International Law, Human Rights, and Politics claude lefort Translated by Jesse Cordes Selbin Translator’s Introduction We frequently imagine that laws are set in place and that historical events either do or do not conform...

...Genevieve Renard Painter A review of Esmeir Samera , Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History ( Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2012 ). Cited in the text as jh . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 A Figure in Law and the Archive Samera Esmeir and the Making of Juridical...

...Gordon Hull DIGITAL COPYRIGHT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF PURE LAW Gordon Hull The word "enforceability" reminds us that there is no such thing as law that doesn't imply in itself, a priori, in the analytic structure of its concept...

...Rajbir Singh Judge A review of Julia Stephens , Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 ); Brinkley Messick , Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2018...

... and intellectual press Verso, Miéville himself is exceptionally qualified to produce a novelistic work devoted to 1917. Politically, he is a long-standing member of multiple left-wing groups and parties, mostly Trotskyist, as well as the author of a dissertation on Marxism and international law. 2 Much more...

...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...

...Shaj Mohan Abstract Deconstruction was the beginning of a disassembly of metaphysics that now proceeds toward anastasis through the openings created by Jean-Luc Nancy. Deconstruction remained classical in the sense of its reliance on classical laws of thought, of which it remained the self-critique...

... to courts for review and release. Kafka’s Trial , which brought this kind of legal nightmare into focus, proves relevant for understanding the temporal sequence by which the expectation of justice through law is confounded and negated. Over and against the expectation that a set of legal procedures...

... on the welfare state as caught up between welfarist universality, industrial-capitalist expansion, and sovereign territoriality. Drawing on Foucault’s work, these different logics of statehood are analyzed as evolving constellations of law, discipline, and security. Danish immigration policy mutates over time so...

... Europe and those in the Byzantine and Muslim worlds—had always consisted of theology and law. It was only with the Enlightenment (and above all with Humboldt’s founding of the University of Berlin) that the faculty of philosophy would gain the status of the fundamental faculty within...

... This confl uence of ostentatious self- presentation with infamous debauchery and blas- phemous performance art may have been factors in Horsley’s bar- ment at the border, though none of these were excludable offenses in US immigration law. The offi cial charge was “moral turpitude,” the evidence...

.... Ac- cording to Derrida, “ipseity” is the capacity for self-causation: “the power that gives itself its own law.”6 He takes the term from the Latin intensive pronoun ipse, which means “- self,” as in himself (ipse), her- self (ipsa), itself (ipsum). The principle of ipseity empowers...

... their prospects today and in the fu- ture.”1 Moyn’s basic argument is that international human rights is a relatively new invention. Whereas other histories have insisted on seeing human rights as a manifestation and refi nement of a set of ideas that could be traced back to natural law and the French...

...Christopher Peterson Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 RESENTING AIDS: PARANOIA, PUNISHMENT, PERFORMATIVITY Christopher Peterson The "purpose of law" . . . is absolutely the last thing to employ in the history of the origin of law...

...Yuhe Faye Wang A review of Chambers-Letson Joshua Takano , A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America ( New York : New York University Press , 2013 ), and Kim Ju Yon , The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday ( New York : New York...

... grave. These mothers, accompanied by men and children who are the relatives of the disappeared, as well as a handful of activist law- yers and human- rights defenders, hold red carnations and often wear white headscarves that have become symbolic of their relent- less search for their children...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Contributors megan alvarado saggese is a graduate student in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. antony anghie is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. His re- search...

...Seyla Benhabib Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Moving beyond False Binarisms On Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia seyla benhabib Rarely in intellectual history has a concept fi red the imagination of scholars across disciplines as divergent as law, philosophy, his- tory, and cultural...

...- daic Law in favor of pure agape— pure love. Love versus Capital? Readers of 2i2ek may be surprised to find the Slovene philosopher aligning the Pauline mission to convert the Gentiles of the late Antique Mediterranean world with Lenin's "fight- ing materialism" or Walter Benjamin's...

...," is his mod- eling of the revolutionary "breakout" upon the passage from Judaism to Christianity, a passage he locates in Saint Paul's abrogation of Ju- daic Law in favor of pure agape— pure love. Love versus Capital? Readers of 2i2ek may be surprised to find the Slovene philosopher aligning...