...Judith Butler Abstract Indefinite detention is a legal norm and practice that is increasingly acceptable throughout the world. It consists of arrest and forcible detention without a clear communication of crimes committed, and it can last indefinitely, since it deprives the detained of recourse...

... that policies of security premised on free circulation gradually give way to discipline and legal sovereignty that block, filter, and segregate immigrants. Alongside this movement toward territorial enclosure, the discursive construction of the immigrant changes fundamentally. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board...

...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...

... conceptions of history, time, and religious practice. This story of temporality is staked on the question of “influence,” which has a genealogy that includes not just colonial, missionary, liberal politics but also contemporary legal-political questions about foreign influence on democracy and sovereignty...

... contribution to critical theory, history, legal anthropology, and colonial studies. Samera Esmeir’s fi rst book illustrates the rich rewards of the inter- disciplinary, humanistic study of law. Esmeir’s theory provides an important new defi nition of the “human,” while the book’s meth- ods perform a new...

... as at the borders of the United States, legal abstractions become material realities with pernicious effects. Conviction of a crime of moral turpitude can be used to impeach a witness, disbar a lawyer, bar an immigrant, or deport a lawful permanent resident from the country.4 The New...

... with the his- tory and persistence of injustice or large- scale loss.1 How do we describe this “human” task, and who is the human we fi gure as the subject of this process? The answer— which Meister argues through numerous theoretical assemblages, historical case studies, and legal arguments across...

... that such an object can only be mea- sured not with reference to other objects, but according to a schema of resemblance to the eidos which it instantiates. The case has no current value as legal precedent. It generat- ed intensive lobbying by the threatened sheet music industry and Congress...

... with countries such as Guatemala, Chile, and Argentina, recent po- litical and legal activism and scholarship have begun to show just how widespread this practice has been. According to the 2012 Re- port of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Invol- untary Disappearances (wgeid), the number...

... notwithstanding. Control was enacted with the help of different kinds of technologies— they were humanitarian technologies in relation to the siege over Gaza and legal technolo- gies when it came to the distribution of violence in attacks from the air or on the ground. Both were systems...

..., another legal scholar writing at the same time and in re- sponse to Henkin, provided his own vision of this distinctiveness: “Perhaps the boldest innovation of the human rights movement consists in subjecting a state’s treatment of its own citizens to inter- national law and the monitoring functions...

..., that “Anglo-American jurisprudence formalized analysis in terms of cases” and that “both legal traditions were oriented to fact and rule combinations, and both traced the origins of these basic combinations to events in the world” ( ss , 194). Yet for Anglo-American jurisprudence and modern jurisprudence...

... on the subjugation of women, instituting and upholding restrictions, legal elisions, and archaisms, as well as a myriad of daily practices that ended up in the denial of the very notion of “human rights” to the female sex. For example, un- der the new liberal laws, the typical penalty...

... legal framework for adjudicating state atrocities like those committed by the Nazi regime during World War II. Dur- ing the 1980s, human rights were invoked by protesting citizens themselves urging the democratic transformation of authoritarian regimes. Closer to our own time— in the “age...

... responses to Edelman’s book. Early in his polemic against “reproductive futurism” Edelman describes “a local moment in the ongoing war against abortion” (NF, 14). He writes: “Not long ago, on a much traveled corner in Cambridge, Massachusetts, opponents of the legal right to abor- tion plastered...

... principles of a political system built around the rule of law, which then need to be fi lled with concrete content through the constitutional, legal, and socioeconomic tra- ditions of various polities. Citizens must fi rst recognize each other reciprocally as persons entitled...

... moral or legal grounds. Unwilling to be governed by an immoral document, Douglass, as per the Garrisonian political philosophy, acted as a conscientious objector to the American Union, believing that, according to historian Philip S. Foner, "Until the government and the Constitution were...

...- world approaches to inter- national law. His books include Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Limits of International Law (2005), The Third World and Interna- tional Legal Order, coedited with Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mick- elson, and Obiora Okafor (2003), and Legal Visions of the 21st Century...

... when they encounter something without a name.13 The zero signifi er lets them to talk about it before they understand what it is. “Reconciliation,” in contrast, is a name without a thing: a signifi er with a zero signifi ed. It refers not to a legal doctrine but to a place...

... across time” (cc, 102). As the basic architectural unit of a Jeffersonian domestic economy, the heteronormative household fi gured centrally in US imperialism by modeling “the space through which the legal form of value was defi ned and imposed” (cc, 103). Through this model...