Latour and the passage of law /

13 essays explore Bruno Latour's legal theory from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the phi...

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Other Authors: McGee, Kyle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Series:Critical connections (Edinburgh University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kyle McGee
  • From the conseil d'État to Gaia : Bruno Latour on law, surfaces and depth / David Saunders
  • Politics and law as Latourian modes of existence / Graham Harman
  • On devices and logics of legal sense : toward socio-technical legal analysis / Kyle McGee
  • "The crown wears many hats" : Canadian aboriginal law and the black-boxing empire / Mariana Valverde and Adriel Weaver
  • Providing the missing link : law after Latour's passage / Serge Gutwirth
  • The life and deaths of a dispute : an inquiry into matters of law / Niels van Dijk
  • Plasma! Notes on Bruno Latour's metaphysics of law / Laurent de Sutter
  • The conditions of a good judgment : from law to internal affairs police investigations / Cédric Moreau de Bellaing
  • In the name of the law : ventriloquism and juridical matters / Franc̨ois Cooren
  • Laboratory Life and the economics of science in law / David S. Caudill
  • Bartleby, barbarians and the legality of literature / Faith Barter
  • The strange entanglement of jurimorphs / Bruno Latour.