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Interrupting the Legal Person

This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. The chapters in this volume interrogate the role of the person and personhood in different contexts, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Colección:Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Editorial Board
  • Chapter 1: Reframing Colonial Law's Criminally Accused Persons
  • Introduction
  • An Example: Criminally Accusing an Individual Person
  • Accusing Socially Located Individuals
  • Revised Legal Fictions that Accuse Collective Persons
  • Concluding Allusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered
  • Context
  • Introduction
  • Gitxsan Legal Personhood
  • Some of the Colonial Erosion
  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The Legal Person
  • 3. Responsibility
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: The Role of the Person in Modern Constitutional Law: How State-inflicted Harms Become Personal
  • Introduction
  • Dolphin Delivery: The Legal Denial of Political Science?
  • Hutchinson and Petter on the 'Liberal Lie of the Charter'
  • Malmo-levine: Criminalisation as a Self-inflicted Wound
  • Conclusion: Between Two Systems
  • References
  • Chapter 6: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Foucault's Historical Method
  • The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism
  • Foucault's Territorial Assumptions
  • Constituting an 'Indian' Population
  • Biopolitics of Indian Status
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Interrupted by Death: The Legal Personhood and Non-personhood of Corpses
  • Introduction
  • Benjamin: The Defiance of the Corpse
  • Foucault: Letting Die
  • In Re Widening of Beekman Street
  • Cases after In Re Widening of Beekman Street
  • The Corpse as Symbol: An 'Unsurpassedly Spectacular Gesture'
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Books and Articles
  • Legal Cases
  • US Law
  • English Law