...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...

...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...

...Susan Gillman Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Susan Gillman Sure Identifiers : Race, Science, and the Law in Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson A book is the writer s secret life, the dark twin of a man. William Faulkner, Mosquitoes Soon after Pudd nhead Wilson was published in late...

...Jack P. Greene From the Perspective of Law: Context and Legitimacy in the Origins of the American Revolution A Review Essay by Jack P. Greene I The dramatic expansion of early American history over the past two dec­ ades has not produced an explosion of interest in the American Revolution...

...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...

... Justice Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1875. By Harold M. Hyman and William M. Wiecek. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Pp. vii, 571. $20.95. With the publication of Equal Justice Under Law, Harper s New American Nation Series in American constitutional history now spans the period from 1835...

...W. D. White Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Medical Homicide: Clarity in Law, Ambiguity in Practice W. D. White Every culture in the history of Western civilization has regarded the pro­ tection of human life as a major goal of its legal system. In every jurisdic­ tion...

...Robert F. Barsky Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Robert F. Barsky Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law, and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolf Rocker The various directions toward which Bakhtin studies are presently moving suggests that what­ ever...

...—a conservative and religious political movement seeking to set up India as a Hindu state—on shaping the contours of secularism in contemporary law. The struggle over the meaning of secularism came to a head in an Indian High Court decision in 2010. The case involved a dispute over the legal title to a piece...

...Colin Dayan This article seeks to make sense of the diverse and contradictory materials of law that intervene in everyday life through strategies of containment, exclusion, and extermination. The prison is now the central public institution in the United States. Though hidden from sight, it defines...

...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...

...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...