Jurisdiction

ISBN-13: 9780415471657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 152 str.

Shaunnagh Dorsett

Opis

Introducing one of the central topics and concerns of jurisprudence - the authorisation and authority of law - this book aims to re-introduce and refresh jurisdictional thinking about law by addressing the ways that questions of jurisdiction still give shape to law and to legal thought.

Spis treści

Introduction; The Forms of Jurisdiction; Authority and Authorisation: Sovereignty, Territory, Jurisdiction; Technologies of Jurisdiction; Personal Jurisdiction and Legal Persons: The End of Life; Jurisdictional Encounters and the Meeting of Laws; Jurisdiction, Events and the International; Conclusions: Responsibility and the Forms of Law.

O autorze

Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She writes at the intersections of legal history, native title and jurisprudence. Her most recent book is Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter (eds) Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (NY Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

Shaun McVeigh is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School , University of Melbourne. He has research interests in the fields of jurisprudence, legal ethics and health care. He is editor of the book Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).