Legal Thinkers

The seven interviews collected here are geographically and culturally diverse, with different methodological and legal contexts. I hope to broaden the diversity of voices at a second round of talks in the summer of 2021. The first expanded study of Bruno Latour`s legal theory, this book presents a critical reconstruction of Latour`s entire work, from laboratory life to the study of modes of existence. Based on the powerful ideas about normative effects made by actor-network theory. First, it provides the first introduction specifically for legal thinkers to brain imaging. It describes in an understandable way the new techniques and methods that the legal system is increasingly facing. Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers presents analyses of important critical theorists who have written about law and contributed significantly to the development of new interdisciplinary jurisprudence. The aim of the series is to bring law, social sciences and humanities into a closer dialogue. There are many other normative approaches to legal philosophy, including critical legal studies and libertarian legal theories. He works with a number of firms and individuals – such as “a crazy former mathematician” who heads Samaniego Law`s contract management and artificial intelligence department – or alternative law firms such as UnitedLex to provide clients with cost-effective answers to everyday legal questions.

Rebecca Johnson is Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit at the University of Victoria. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include legal dissent, economic imaginary, Indigenous legal methods, gender and sexuality. A pioneer of Canadian law and film studies, she has written on topics such as same-sex family education, colonialism, westerns, affect and emotions, and Inuit cinema. His book Taxing Choices: the Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood and the Law (2003) won the 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Social Science Book from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ms. Jackson is one of the few non-practicing lawyers to be appointed as a partner in a high-end law firm. She leads HSF`s Alternative Legal Services group, which provides clients with cost-effective products and services to deliver on their larger legal projects more efficiently. The philosophy of law can be divided into analytical jurisprudence and normative jurisprudence. [5] Analytical jurisprudence seeks to define what is right and what is not by identifying the essential characteristics of the law.

Normative jurisprudence examines both the non-legal norms that shape law and the legal norms that are generated by law and guide human action. [5] The first book devoted to Slavoj Zizek`s theoretical treatment of law, this book brings together widely recognized Zizek scholars and legal theorists to offer a sustained analysis of the place of law in Zizek`s work. Whether it is symbolic law, psychoanalytic law, religious law, positive law, human rights, the legal philosophies of Lacan, Hegel or Kant, or even Jewish or Buddhist law, Zizek returns to law again and again. And what his work offers, this volume shows, is a radically new approach to law and a reshaping of its role in the context of radical politics. With the help of Zizek himself, who for the first time deals directly with the theme of law, this collection offers an authoritative presentation of “Zizek and the Law”. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the fields of law, legal theory, philosophy of law, political theory, psychoanalysis, theology and cultural studies. Critical jurists have made us aware that law is not only made up of rules, but also of language. But who speaks the language of law? And can we legitimately speak with our voice? For the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, to answer these questions, we must not separate who speaks.

Scott Veitch is Paul K. K. Chung Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His work focuses on how legal theory interacts with politics, society, and history, and his forthcoming book Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (forthcoming) addresses the implications of organizing society through an engagement-based approach. He is the author of Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering (2007) and Moral Conflict and Legal Reasoning (1999), which won the European Prize for Legal Theory. Professor Veitch is also co-editor of Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts, now in its third edition. Unlike experimental jurisprudence, which examines the content of our concepts of popular law using the methods of the social sciences[6], analytical jurisprudence seeks to account in a general way of the nature of the law through the tools of conceptual analysis. The narrative is general in that it addresses the universal features of the law that apply at all times and in all places. [7] While jurists are interested in what law is about a particular topic in a particular jurisdiction, legal philosophers are interested in identifying the characteristics of law that are shared across cultures, times, and places. Taken together, these fundamental features of law provide the kind of universal definition that philosophers seek. The general approach allows philosophers to ask questions, for example, about what separates law from morality, politics or practical reason. [7] Researchers in this field often assume that the law has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other phenomena, although not everyone shares this assumption.

In a 30-minute series of interviews, I asked these and similar questions to seven leading “legal thinkers” in Canada and other parts of the world, including the United States, Australia, Finland and Hong Kong. The conversations were recorded via Zoom in August-September 2020, in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as an educational tool to use in the classroom. The conversational style of the interviews hoped to create a sense of closeness to the authors that could somehow compensate for the lack of interaction with students in class. Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political provides a critical legal introduction to the work of this increasingly influential Italian theorist focusing on Esposito`s reconception of the relationship between law, community, and politics. The analysis focuses mainly on. The first-ever book on Slavoj Zizek`s theoretical treatment of law brings together widely recognized Zizek scholars as well as legal theorists to offer a sustained analysis of the place of law in Zizek`s work. Whether it is a symbolic law, a psychoanalytic law,. Third, the article provides some general guidelines on how to avoid misunderstandings about brain images in legal contexts and how to recognize when others are abusing brain images. The article is a product of the Law and Neuroscience Project, which is supported by the MacArthur Foundation. It is both a sign of Ms.

Jackson`s tenacity and the evolution of the legal profession as a whole that the HSF has made this appointment. Her alternative legal career began when she worked as a practice group leader in the litigation department. In 2010, she was appointed head of the Belfast office, which was set up to do work at a lower cost. The group includes more than 400 lawyers, analysts and technologists and serves the firm`s international offices. Mark Antaki is Associate Professor and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law at McGill University. Prof. Antaki is interested in law as a fundamental human linguistic activity and phenomenological and genealogical approaches to law. He has published on topics such as the turn to “imagination” in legal theory, discourses on “values” and “proportionality” in constitutional law, the metaphor of the book in South Africa`s interim constitution, and the role of exemplarity in legal argumentation.

He is co-editor of Sensing the Nation`s Law: Historical Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy (2018) and Rationalité pénale et démocratie (2013). M. Samaniego sought to create a law firm that combines technical lawyers with cost-conscious resources and technology for clients. Legal philosophy is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of law and the relationship of law to other normative systems, especially ethics and political philosophy. [1] [2] It asks questions such as “What is law?”, “What are the criteria for legal validity?” and “What is the relationship between law and morality?” Legal philosophy and jurisprudence are often used interchangeably, although jurisprudence sometimes includes forms of reasoning that fit into economics or sociology. [3] [4] Legal philosophers also deal with a variety of philosophical problems that arise in certain legal topics such as constitutional law, contract law, criminal law, and tort law.