Books in the Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers series

An exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory.

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis AlthusserΓÇÖs philosophy. The growing importance of AlthusserΓÇÖs philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained consideration of his conception of law more necessary than ever. As a form of what Althusser called ΓÇÿIdeological State ApparatusesΓÇÖ, law is at the forefront of political struggles: from the destruction of Labour Law to the exploitation of Patent Law; from the privatisation of Public Law to the ongoing hegemony of Commercial Law; and from the discourse on Human Rights to the practice of judicial courts. Is Althusser still useful in helping us to understand these struggles? Does he have something to teach us about how law is produced, and how it is used and misused? This collection demonstrates that AlthusserΓÇÖs ideas about law are more important, and more contemporary, than ever. Indeed, the contributors to Althusser and Law argue that Althusser offers a new and invaluable perspective on the place of law in contemporary life.

Drawing on Cavarerös work, this book focuses on the potentiality of the voice for resisting law¿s sovereign structures. For Cavarero, it is the voice that expresses one¿s living and unrepeatable singularity. It leads to possibilities of resistance that bring a fresh approach to legal theoretical concerns with singularity, ethics and justice.

Bringing together specialists and scholars in different areas of law, critical theory and philosophy, this rethinking of law and socio-legal studies through Rancière provides an original and important engagement with a range of contemporary legal topics.

Drawing on Cavarerös work, this book focuses on the potentiality of the voice for resisting law¿s sovereign structures. For Cavarero, it is the voice that expresses one¿s living and unrepeatable singularity. It leads to possibilities of resistance that bring a fresh approach to legal theoretical concerns with singularity, ethics and justice.

This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière¿s work from a legal perspective. Bringing together specialists and scholars in different areas of law, critical theory and philosophy, this rethinking of law and socio-legal studies through Rancière provides an original and important engagement with a range of contemporary legal topics.

Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser¿s philosophy.

Using Judith Butler's work as a reading of how the legal subject is formed, this book traces how Butler comes to the themes of ethics, law and politics analyzing their interrelation and explaining how they relate to Butler's question of how people can have more livable and viable lives. It is aimed at students of legal ethics and social theory.

The very first book dedicated to Slavoj Zizek¿s theoretical treatment of law, this book gathers widely recognized Zizek scholars and legal theorists to analyise the place of law in Zizek¿s work. Whether it is with reference to symbolic law, psychoanalytical law, religious law, positive law, human rights, to Lacan¿s, Hegel¿s, or Kant¿s philosophies of law, or even to Jewish or Buddhist law, Zizek's work offers a new approach to law's role within the framework of radical politics. With the help of Zizek himself ¿ who here, and for the first time, directly engages with the topic of law ¿ this collection provides an authoritative account of `Zizek and law¿.

Presents the analysis of the relevance and importance of the social theory of Henri Lefebvre for the study of law and the administrative state.

Presents a critical description and a performative inversion of the theory of legal autopoiesis as developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. This book introduces this theory in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically. It reveals the aporetic structure of autopoiesis. It operates as a critical response to autopoiesis.

Offers an introduction to the jurisprudential, political and philosophical thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. This work deals with the three main themes of Agamben's work: Power; Law; and Humanity. It describes a distinctly Agambenian account of the relationship between justice and critique.

There has been and continues to be a remarkable revival in academic interest in Carl Schmitt's thought within politics. This book addresses his thought from an explicitly legal theoretical perspective, as it addresses the actual and potential significance of Schmitt's thought for debates within contemporary Anglo-American legal theory.

Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis' writings provide material on the Marxist theory of law and the state, as well as the attempts to apply that doctrine in Soviet Russia. This book considers Pasukanis' work both within its historical context and in relation to contemporary legal theory, answering a range of questions.