Description
Law and power is a tricky theme for a book. It seems to imply that law and power are separate entities and there exists a general congruence in the views of the principal characteristics of these entities. Furthermore, the formulation of the theme seems to assume that as such separate entities, law and power can enter into specific relationships with each other; the task consists in analyzing these specific relationships.
The articles collected in this volume defy these implicit assumptions of the theme, reflecting the present situation in what can perhaps vaguely be called critical legal theory; vaguely, because the notion of critique has become as ambiguous and contested as those of law and power. If there is anything which unites the articles contained in this volume, the common denominator lies more in what is rejected rather than in what is proposed as its replacement.
Published by Deborah Charles Publications
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Table of Contents
I: Law and Power: Theoretical Perspectives
Kaarlo Tuori, Law, Power and Critique.
Sakari Hänninen, Power as Relation Abstract
Alan Hunt, The Politics of Law and the Law of Politics
Peter Fitzpatrick, Relational Power and the Limits of Law Abstract
Kevät Nousiainen, Interfaces of Law
Gunther Teubner, The Two Faces of Janus: Rethinking Legal Pluralism
Tim Murphy, The Boundaries of the Legal
II: Law and Power: Some Applications
Zenon Bankowski, The Institution of Law
Philippe Gérard, Democracy and the Legitimacy of Law
Frances Olsen, The Sex of Power
Margareta Bertilsson, Law, Power, and Risk: A Subversive Reflection
Britt-Mari Blegvad, Trust and Law: Establishing Norms and Structural Frameworks for Interaction and Dispute Treatment in Business
III: Beyond Law and Power
Ari Hirvonen, Antigone: The Love of the Goddess of Justice
Kjell Sevón, The Simple Touch of Power
Costas Douzinas and
Ronnie Warrington, Law’s Others
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