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Rights, Resistance and Critique: The Legal Theory of Costas Douzinas

Edited by Alexis Alvarez Nakagawa · Illan Rua Wall
Coming Soon Routledge Available July 2026

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ISBN-13
9781032622248
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
July 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This is the first edited volume on the work of essential critical legal theorist Costas Douzinas. It brings together his collaborators, students and contemporaries in legal critique to reflect on different aspects of his oeuvre and to celebrate his significant contribution to legal scholarship over the last forty years.

From the inauguration of a distinctly critical legal project in the UK in the mid-eighties, Costas Douzinas has been at the forefront of a number of its key theoretical, legal and political debates. With key interventions in deconstructive and postmodern legal theory, legal aesthetics, psychoanalysis and law, the radical critique of human rights, and most recently in the critical legal theorization of social movement, protest, sovereign power, the state of exception and non-human rights, Douzinas’s influence has been widely felt. This book provides a key overview of some key aspects of his oeuvre, uncovering fresh resources and new directions of analysis.

The book is aimed at students and researchers who share an interest in the politics and aesthetics of law. It refuses the easy critical equation of law and politics, and produces a more radical account of law, politics, resistance and social change.

Table of Contents

1. Thinking (Critically) as Friends and Neighbours
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Illan Rua Wall
2. Costas Douzinas: Critical, Political, Institutional
Joanna Bourke
3. The Critical (Legal) Praxis of Costas Douzinas
Illan rua Wall
4. The Superfetation of Costas D
Peter Goodrich
5. Just Listening
Gilbert Leung
6. Wild Mercury Text: Douzinas….Bentham…De-ontology
Adam D. Gearey
7. Reflections on Postmodern Truth and Post-Truth
Elena Loizidou
8. The Very Short Story of Douzinas’ Law and Images (that awaits its rebuttal)
Ozan Kamiloglu
9. Towards A Legal Phenomenology of Sounds: Douzinas’s Legal Aesthetics Beyond the Image
Julia Chryssostalis
10. The Material Douzinas
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
11. The Paradox of Non-Human Rights
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa
12. The Errancy of Rights and the Refusal of the Law
Patrick Hanafin
13. The Electrical Dialectic
Cormac Deane
14. From Anomie to Antigone: a Retrospective on the Right to Resistance in the Work of Costas Douzinas
Ceylan Begüm Yıldız
15. A Legend
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
16. ‘Occupy Everything’: The Critique of Human Rights Meets the Age of Resistance in Brazil
Moniza Rizzini Ansari
17. The Right to Bury the Dead: Alterity, Hope and Revolution
Marcus V. A. B. De Matos
18. Interview with Costas Douzinas: Critical Legal Studies, Resistance and the Crisis
Daniel Matthews
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