Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal

Edited by Mark Goodale · Olaf Zenker
Cambridge University Press September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009499590
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2025
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The book's authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patterns in the ways in which law and legality are invested with heightened importance during certain historical moments, a process of over-loading that most often gives way to disenchantment with the ultimate limits of law. In reflecting critically and synthetically on these complicated dialectics of reckoning with law, the book shines a light on one of the most important, and consequential, dynamics in an era of climate crisis, rising populism across the political spectrum, and social conflict.

Table of Contents

Introduction: social and political transformation within, against, and beyond the Law
Mark Goodale and Olaf Zenker
1. Reckoning with transformative constitutionalism: land reform, expropriation without compensation and the iconic indexicality of post-apartheid South Africa
Olaf Zenker
2. Beyond here lies somethin': juristocratic reckonings in two narratives of legalities
Lynette J. Chua
3. After constitutionalism: current pathways of legal domination
Julia Eckert and Kiri Santer
4. Re-presenting rights: food sovereignty and the struggle for postliberal democratic governance
Matthew Canfield
5. Translocal dilemmas: social mobilization and justice-seeking beyond the boundaries of Law
Mark Goodale
6. The enduring logic of mercy: humanitarianism and the eclipse of human rights
Arzoo Osanloo
7. Law and the afterlives of Utopia: reckoning with pasts and futures in Berlin's housing movement
Nitzan Shoshan
8. Plurinational juristocracy and rights from below at Bolivia's gas frontier
Penelope Anthias
9. Law-washing the transitional state: the practice of property restitution in post-war Kosovo
Agathe Mora
10. After judicialization? law, authoritarian regression, and the defense of indigenous life-worlds in Guatemala
Rachel Sieder
11. 'A dead child is better than a missing one': religiosity, technology and aspirations for justice beyond law
Kamari Clarke
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