...Giso Amendola In the struggles against neoliberalism, it is difficult to reconcile the language of instituent practices and the language of revolution, the transformation of the present in its totality. This difficult link also raises the problem of law. The production of commons is interpreted...

...Gaurav Desai 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Gaurav Desai Introduction: Culture before the Law...

...Keith Werhan 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Keith Werhan The Tie That Binds: Constitutional Law and Culture, Obscenity and Child Pornography The rule-of-law...

...Bülent Küçük; Ceren Özselçuk This essay frames the emerging regime in Turkey as a question. Starting with a discussion of the limits of conjunctural analysis, we offer some fragmentary analysis. We highlight transgression of law and imperial fantasies as the two constitutive aspects that have...

...Saygun Gökarıksel; Z. Umut Türem Recent studies of authoritarianism in Turkey often conceptualize the problem as a move away from the rule of law toward rule by law; that is, law’s political instrumentalization by powerful authoritarian movements or personalities. Informed by the liberal legalist...

... and the have-nots and revisit its role in the construction of social relations of production within the metropolis. The South Atlantic Quarterly 118:4, October 2019 doi 10.1215/00382876-7825672 © 2019 Duke University Press Maria Rosaria Marella The Law of the Urban Common(s) Cities are quintessentially human...

...Michele Spanò The essay argues for the compatibility between private law and the commons. In order to do so, it proposes an archeology of modern private law, which traces both the emergence of what will be called “modern topology” and the historical transformation of civil law into what we still...

...Francesco Brancaccio This essay will show what are some of the qualifying characteristics of the theoretical construction of the law of the common. It will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I will review some of the main structural modifications that affected modern law with the advent...

...Ntina Tzouvala The purpose of this paper is dual, and it has to do with specificity. First, it aims to show that a “law and political economy” approach to international law has been and will be distinct from its US counterpart. To do so, it offers an overview of both the prevailing approaches...

... that is on the verge of rupture. Such acts of construction necessarily entail an engagement with—and a contestation over—the state; and they play out, in no small part, on the terrain of law. The article’s focus is on the ways in which recent political economic, organizing, and legal developments in New York City’s...

... Economy .” Harvard Law Review Forum 134 , no. 1 : 90 – 118 . Akbar Amna A. Ashar Sameer M. Simonson Jocelyn . 2021 . “ Movement Law .” Stanford Law Review 73 , no. 4 : 821 – 84 . Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... : Harvard University Press . Fineman Martha Albertson . 2008 . “ The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition .” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 20 , no. 1 : 1 – 23 . Friedman Lawrence M. 2002 . American Law in the Twentieth Century . New Haven, CT : Yale...

...Itamar Mann The BDS movement has cast its campaign in legal terms, successfully conceptualizing the regime currently in place in Israel-Palestine as one that violates international law and requires a measure of transnational enforcement. Yet, from the perspective of Jewish Israeli citizens...

...Christopher Pye Focusing on Shakespeare's Winter's Tale , the essay counters Carl Schmitt's claim that Absolutism represents an ideal conjunction of the monarch's creative and legislative acts. It argues that early modern theater conveys the problematic character of the relation between law...

... 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Chris Cunneen Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Law: Challenging the Processes of Criminalization Introduction This essay explores the relationship between sovereignty...

...Christine Black This essay is a nonlinear narrative that attempts to “unthink” the ways in which Australian Indigenous peoples' identity, sovereignty, and law are discussed. An Australian Aboriginal law narrative and poetry are part of the unthinking language used to discuss these definitions...

... law has responded to Indigenous peoples' demands for cultural survival, appraising progress made and suggesting further improvements to the international legal regime. In doing so, the essay focuses on the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, overwhelmingly passed by the UN General...

...Cheryl Suzack This essay undertakes a cultural analysis of law and literature to analyze the relationship between the Supreme Court of Canada's reasoning in Delgamuukw and Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach . It shows how legal texts enact a foreclosure of social space by transforming human...

... through changes to citizenship law. These changes, however, did less to prevent illegal migration than to expand migrants' routes into becoming designated as illegal and suffering harsh consequences. Furthermore, the legal changes reworked sexual, gender, racial, class, and cultural hierarchies at local...

...Catherine Mills This essay examines the notion of “playing with law” that Giorgio Agamben proposes in State of Exception and, more broadly, his understanding of “play” as developed in works such as Infancy and History . In this latter text, Agamben provides his most extended discussion of play...