Feeling Jurisprudential By Darren Parker Excuse the bias, but the law and literature crowd are pretty switched on. You people are pretty open to new ideas, alternative viewpoints and novel contrasts and comparisons when it comes to literary works and their relationship(s) with law. However, the broader legal ‘profession’ perhaps sways to the more conservative…
Tilburg University, Netherlands 6-7 June 2013 Dr Cassandra Sharp At the beginning of the European summer, a group of international scholars gathered together in Tilburg, NL to share current research and ideas around the diverse field of law and popular culture. It was an extremely full and inspiring two days of engaging scholarship that focused…
The Griffith Law Review is proud to announce the debut of Open Space, a new forum for alternative pieces of scholarship, such as interviews, reports on conferences attended, creative works, and photo essays. Open Space aims to foster cutting edge non-traditional legal inquiry in keeping with the journal’s focus on interdisciplinary, socio-legal, theoretical and critical…
Shaun McVeigh This book joins a growing literature that is concerned with the technical means by which relations of law are created and deployed. In part this literature is presented as ‘ethnographic’ in style but more often its strength comes from developing prudential and critical accounts of the roles and tactics of the offices and…
Shaun McVeigh Spatial Politics is published as part of Routledge’s Nomikoi critical legal thinkers series. It presents a law-sensitive account of the broad range of Henri Lefebvre’s scholarship. For some the body of Lefebvre’s work is best left to the history of Marxist scholarship in France. This would be a pity. Chris Butler offers an…
Shaun McVeigh There is a lot to think with in Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. On its surface it is a study of the ‘modernist’ moment of legal theory: it re-casts the canon and style of investigating legal and literary theory in order to address the modernist understanding of the nature of modernity,…
Shaun McVeigh Too little work in the field of law literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia is subject to review. So let me begin with a brief notice of Bill (William P) MacNeil’s Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction (2012). This book was published last year but it has not yet received anything like the…