Latour and the Passage of Law

Author: Kyle McGee
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748697915

Published In: August 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Scotland ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780748697908

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13 essays explore Bruno Latour's legal theory from a variety of disciplinary perspectives This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.

Bruno Latour's writings in science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and philosophy are well-known, but only rarely has his work in law been appreciated as a core element, and still less as a passage point for students and scholars of law. This collection demonstrates the urgency with which both of those omissions must be reconsidered.

1. Introduction

Kyle McGee

2. From the Conseil D'Etat to Gaia: Bruno Latour on Law, Surfaces and Depth

David Saunders

3. Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of Existence

Graham Harman

4. On Devices and Logics of Legal Sense: Towards Socio-Technical Legal Analysis

Kyle McGee

5. 'The Crown Wears Many Hats': Canadian Aboriginal Law and the Black-boxing of Empire

Mariana Valverde & Adriel Weaver

6. Providing the Missing Link: Law After Latour's Passage

Serge Gutwirth