Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction

ISBN-13: 9781844720323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str.

Opis

For much of the history of the western legal order, jurisdiction has been the first question of law. This book investigates the difference that jurisdiction makes to the ordering of normative existence. It also follows the speculation that without an accou

Spis treści

Questions of Jurisdiction.  The Metaphysics of Jurisdiction.  Of the Founding of Law’s Jurisdiction and the Politics of Sexual Difference: The Case of Roman Law.  Guantanamo Bay: ‘Abandoned Being’ and the Constitution of Jurisdiction.  Conjuring Palestine: The Jurisdiction of Dispossession.  Jurisdiction and Nation-building: Tall Tales in Nineteenth Century Aotearoa/New Zealand.  The Suppression of State Interests in International Litigation.  Mapping Territories.  Placing Jurisdiction.  A Jurisdiction of Body and Desire: Exploring the Boundaries of Bodily Control in Prostitution Law.  Subjects of Jurisdiction: The Dying, Northern Territory, Australia, 1995–1997.  Embracing Jurisdiction: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.  Jurisdiction and the Colonisation of Sublime Enjoyment.  Index

O autorze

Shaun McVeigh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Griffith University, Australia.