Samuli Hurri: 2 books
Birth of the European Individual
Law, Security, Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book examines the birth of the European individual as a juridical problem, focusing on legal case dossiers from the European Court of Justice as an electrifying laboratory for the study of law and society. Foucault’s story of the modern subject constitutes the book’s main theoretical inspiration,...
From Dissonance to Sense
Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity. It analyses the pressures for changes in this area of law due to the present processes of privatisation and marketisation. The perspective is welfarist: in what ways and to what extent can the welfare state...