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  • Law in the Courts of Love

    Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    Law in the Courts of Love traces the literary history and diversity of past legal systems. These 'minor jurisprudences' range from the spiritual laws of the courts of conscience to the code and judgements of love handed down by women's courts in medieval France. Professor Goodrich presents the 15th Century Courts of Love in Paris as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from the ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

    Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Schreber's Law

    Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    Series series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities

    $30.99 CAD

  • Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Peter Goodrich presents a unique introduction to the concept of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Nietzsche and Legal Theory

    Half-Written Laws

    by Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Nietzsche and Legal Theory is an anthology designed to provide legal and socio-legal scholars with a sense of the very wide range of projects and questions in whose pursuit Nietzsche's work can be useful. From medical ethics to criminology, from the systemic anti-Semitism of legal codes arising in Christian cultures, to the details of intellectual property debates about regulating the use of ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Shaun Mcveigh ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organized around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take up the question of how a jurist might learn to live, or die, with law. The collection invites readers ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Performing Law

    Actors, Affects, Spaces

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Anna Jayne Kimmel, Bernadette Meyler ...
    Series series Law in Context
    The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Derrida and Law

    Justice and the Violence of Legality

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Anselm Haverkamp, Avital Ronell ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    This book brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars from across the spectrum of disciplines, generations, and geopolitical divides to revisit Jacques Derrida’s account of law, violence, and justice.Deconstruction is variously a philosophy of aporia, a method of patience, a practice of paradoxes, an ontography of uncertainty, a hermeneutics of escalation that sought not only to ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Judicial Uses of Images

    Vision in Decision

    by Prof Peter Goodrich ...
    Series series Law and Literature
    A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the common law world provides a novel visual atlas of how lawyers see. Using a corpus of many images drawn ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Laws of Transgression

    The Return of Judge Schreber

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt ...
    Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies

    The Legality of the Contingent

    Edited by Costas Douzinas, Peter Goodrich, Yifat Hachamovitch ...
    This timely and assured book provides a unique guide to critical legal studies which is one of the most exciting developments within contemporary jurisprudence. It is the first book to systematically apply a critical philosophy to the substance of common law. The book develops a coruscating and interdisciplinary overview of the politics and cultural significance of the institutions of the law. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Law, Text, Terror

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack, Anton Schutz ...
    The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD