Jurisprudence of Movement - Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place

Informationen zum Autor Olivia Barr is based at the University of Technology, Sydney Klappentext Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite the various ways in which the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this oversight, and it does so through an attention to the materialities of legal movement. Arguing that movement is fundamental to the very terms of the common law's existence, taking as an example the judicial practices of walking and burial, it addresses how law moves through patterns of technical and material practice Zusammenfassung Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis To the reader Introduction Part I Moving jurisprudence 1.The responsible jurist 2. The importance of movement Part II Performing jurisprudence 3. Walking with empire 4. Jurisdiction of the dead Part III. Returning jurisprudence 5. Return Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Barr, Barr Olivia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2016
• EAN: 9781138850392
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85039-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Theory, LAW / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Essays, International Law, Systems of law, Social Law, Human Geography, Social law and Medical law, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems