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Number 17 (2019)
Special Issue: The Politics of Knowledge
Visiting editors:
Samuli Hurri &
Iiris Kestilä
Samuli Hurri &
Iiris Kestilä
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
The Politics of Knowledge: Introduction
‘Ensnare the Language’: Imagination and Resilience in Indigenous Arts of the Self
Enhancing Resilience Through Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Ecological Restoration
Justice as a Matter of Thinking. A Phenomenological Approach
Towards a New Ethics of Sexual Self-determination: Finnish Rape Law through the Speculum of Feminist Philosophy
Dao: Cosmological Thinking and Social Practice
Cosmology and Practices of the European Union
Governing the Rural Family in Australia from a Distance: The Family Provision Act and the Role of ‘Expert Knowledges’
The ‘Financial Stability of the Euro Area as a Whole’: Between Jurisdiction and Veridiction
Embodied and Embedded Vulnerable Subject: Asylum Seekers and Vulnerability Theory
Number 16 (2019)
Kati Nieminen &
Sanna Mustasaari
CONTENTS
Editorial: Good Judgement?
Call for Papers: Law & Emotion
ARTICLES
Negotiating the Paradoxical Nature of Human Rights: Newspaper Debate on a Human Rights Violation for Roma Asylum Seekers
Not Judging: Jurisdictional Hubris and Building a Common Legal World
BOOK REVIEWS
Bruno Latour: Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Polity, Cambridge 2018
Jeanne Gaaker, Judging from Experience: Law, Praxis, Humanities, Edinburgh University Press 2019
Number 15 (2018)
Law and the Other
Editors-in-Chief:
Kati Nieminen &
Sanna Mustasaari
Kati Nieminen &
Sanna Mustasaari
CONTENTS
Editorial: Law and the Other
ARTICLES
Crimmigration and Othering in the Finnish Law and Practice of Immigration Detention
Securitising the Asylum Procedure: Increasing Otherness through Exclusion
The Citizen Other: Australian Political Discourse on
‘Governmental Xenophobia’ and Crimmigration: European States’ Policy and Practices towards ‘the Other’
‘Barbarians’ and ‘Radicals’ against the Legitimate Community? Cultural Othering through Discourses on Legitimacy of Human Rights
Othering through Human Dignity
BOOK REVIEWS
Mónica Lopez-Lerma & Julen Etxabe (eds): Rancière and Law, Routledge, London 2018
Number 14 (2017)
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
On Norms and Opposition
A Weak Anti–foundationalism: Law at the Vanishing Point
Court Interpreting as Emotional Work: A Pilot Study in Swedish Law Courts
Human Rights Cinema: The Act of Killing and the Act of Watching
Law’s Resonance and Undercover Performances in Gangster Films
The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in Contemporary Popular Culture
BOOK REVIEWS
Bonnie Honig: Public Things. Democracy in Disrepair. Fordham University Press, New York 2017.
Number 13 (2016)
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Here and Now: From ‘Aestheticizing Politics’ to ‘Politicizing Art’
The Paradigm Case: Is Reasoning and Writing in Film Studies Comparable
To (or With) Reasoning and Writing in Law?
Law as Record: the Death of Osama bin Laden
Forever Again: How Discursive Strategies Re-legitimate Torture in the US Senate
Select Committee’s ‘Torture Report’ and the CIA’s Response
Writing Contagion as Cancer: Law, Gender and HPV Vaccination in Australia
Charity Law and Religion—A Dinosaur in the Modern World?
BOOK REVIEWS
Jill Stauffer: Ethical Loneliness. The Injustice of Not Being Heard.
Columbia University Press, New York 2015.
Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination.
Routledge, New York 2014.
Number 12 (2015)
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Semantic Authority, Legal Change and the Dynamics of International Law
Microfinances and Legal Pluralism: A Case Study of the
Community Development Banks in Brazil
Post-1994 Jurisprudence and South African Coming of Age Stories
On Close Reading the Treaty of Waitangi: An Encounter with Joseph Vining
Bollywood’s Law: Collective Memory and Cinematic Justice in the New India
BOOK REVIEWS
Marianne Constable: Our Word is Our Bond. How Legal Speech Acts.
Stanford University Press, Stanford 2014.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall: The Myth of the Cultural Jew. Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition.
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.
Jeremy Webber: The Constitution of Canada. A Contextual Analysis.
Hart Publishing, Oxford 2015.
Number 11 (2014)
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Law & Society and the Politics of Relevance:
Facts and Field Boundaries in ‘Transnational Legal Theory in Context’
Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation’s Origin to The Act of Killing?
‘No Foundations’?
Pots, Tents, Temples
Is Justice for Sale? Further Readings on Saramago and the Law
BOOK REVIEWS
Hanoch Dagan: Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
Gary Watt: Dress, Law and Naked Truth. A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form. Bloomsbury, London 2013.
Richard Dawson: Justice as Attunement. Transforming Constitutions in Law, Literature, Economics, and the Rest of Life. Routledge, Abingdon 2014.
Number 10 (2013)
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Judging Democracy in the 21st Century: Crisis or Transformation?
Political Judgment for an Agonistic Democracy
Neoliberal Politics of the ‘Market’
The Politics of Public Things: Neoliberalism and the Routine of Privatization
The Democracy in Courts: Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Publicity’ in the Twenty-First Century
‘The Greatest Enemy of Authority’—Arendt, Honig and the Authority of Post-apartheid Jurisprudence
BOOK REVIEWS
Desmond Manderson: Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. The Legacy of Modernism. Routledge, London-New York 2012.
François Ost: Shakespeare. La Comédie de la Loi. Michalon, Paris 2012.
Number 9 (2012)
Relaunch Special Issue. Law’s Justice. A Law & Humanities Perspective
Editors-in-Chief:
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
Julen Etxabe &
Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Editorial
ARTICLES
Justice in Tension: An Expression of Law and the Legal Mind
Configuring Justice
To Avenge, to Forgive or to Judge? Literary Variations
Speaking of the Imperfect: Law, Language and Justice
Justice and the Colonial Collision: Reflections on Stories of Intercultural Encounter in Law, Literature, Sculpture and Film
The Heart of Law
Having Gods, Being Greek and Getting Better: On Equity and Integrity Concerning Property an Other Posited Laws
The Ethics of Testimony: Trauma, Body and Justice in Sarah Kofman
Number 8 (2011)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
Guest editor Mónica López Lerma
Guest editor Mónica López Lerma
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
The violence of wording: Robert Cover on legal interpretation*
On Kelsen’s Sein: an approach to Kelsenian sociological themes
Who happens here? Ethical responsibility, subjectivity, and corporeality*
Liberal battle form: eidos of competition
Liv
Number 6 (2009)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Law and ontological politics*
The stranger within*
A legal space for the representation of danger
Is law necessarily unjust?
Moral obligation of the state or a woman
Number 7 (2010)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Conflict, power, and understanding – judicial dialogue between the ECJ and national courts*
The criminal jurisdiction of states. A theoretical primer*
Systems theory with discourse ethics: squaring the circle?
Doing justice, justifying, resolving
Bookmark. Giorgio Agamben
Number 5 (2008)
For Kaarlo Tuori on his sixtieth birthday
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
Guest editor Liisa Holopainen
Guest editor Liisa Holopainen
CONTENTS
Scripta amicorum
ARTICLES
Legal pluralism or uniform concept of law? Globalisation as a problem of legal theory
How I learned to stop worrying and use the legal argument. A critique of Giorgio Agamben
How international is the European legal order? Retracing Tuori
European constitutionalism: The improbability of self-determination
Constitutionalism and the making of international law. Fuller
Egoism or altruism? The politics of the great balancing act
The decline of gospel
Na progu
Fragments and sediments, system and tradition. A Venetian tribute to Kaarlo Tuori
Authors
Number 4 (October 2007)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
Formalism, fragmentation, freedom. Kantian themes in today
The problem of evil revisited
Hostility and hospitality
On Carl Schmitt
Fiction of law (I)
Number 3 (June 2007)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
Guest editor Suvi Sankari
Guest editor Suvi Sankari
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
European ways of constitutionalism
The failure of the EU
The concept of constitution in Europe: Interpretation in lieu of translation
Number 2 (2006)
Editor-in-Chief Samuli Hurri
CONTENTS
Editorial
ARTICLES
A Glance at the work of Roger Cotterrell
Community as a Legal Concept? Some uses of a law-and-community approach in legal theory
Self-description and external description of the law
Roger Cotterrell
What the law says? Reflections on literal interpretation
Number 1 (2005)
Issues 1 through 8 were published under the name No Foundations: Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism