Law Press imprint: 143 books
The Eye of the Law
Two Essays on Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity...
The Four Lacanian Discourses
or Turning Law Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even...
Law and Sacrifice
Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law.
The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the...
US Army AWOL Defense
A Practice Guide and Formbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book is a legal practice guide (a practical "how-to" book for attorneys and other legal professionals) on how to help AWOL (absent without leave) soldiers get their legal situations resolved in the best way possible. The book includes not only instructional information and commentary,...
Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution.
Can a nation...
New Critical Legal Thinking
Law and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal....
The Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.
In this book, Anderson...
by Paulina Tambakaki
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and the consolidation of the human rights regime, have all contributed to a shift in focus: from an exclusionary,...
Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa
From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the...
by Francisco Ortega
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices.
The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is...
Sovereignty and its Discontents
On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.
The...
The Other's War
Recognition and the Violence of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches – just war theory, classical realist,...
Being Against the World
Rebellion and Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.
by Stephen Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the...