Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction

by McVeigh, Shaun

• ISBN13: 9780203945483
• ISBN10: 0203945484
• Copyright: 2007-02-23
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book investigates the difference that jurisdiction continues to make to the ordering of normative existence. It also follows the speculation that without an account of jurisdiction, jurisprudence would be left with no power to address the conditions of attachment to legal and political order.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

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

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