As we hadn’t come across the imprint before we thought it might be worth listing their publications. It appears there’s been no new book title since 2019
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Law and Critique is the prime international critical legal theory journal. Established in 1990, the journal has been published for over 20 years and is associated with the Critical Legal Conference. Law and Critique covers all aspects of legal theory, jurisprudence and substantive law that are approached from a critical perspective. Law and Critique has introduced into legal scholarship a variety of schools of thought, such as postmodernism; feminism; queer theory; critical race theory; literary approaches to law; psychoanalysis; law and the humanities; law and aesthetics and post-colonialism. Postmodern jurisprudence, law and aesthetics and law and psychoanalysis were pioneered in Law and Critique which remains the most authoritative international source for these schools of thought. Law and Critique is keen to translate and incorporate non-English critical legal thought. More specifically, Law and Critique encourages the submission of articles in the areas of critical legal theory and history, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, law and post-colonialism; postmodern jurisprudence, law and aesthetics; legal phenomenology; and law and autopoiesis. Past special issues include: ‘Critical Legal Education’; ‘The Gender of Law’; ‘Law and Postmodernism’; ‘Law and Literature’; ‘Law and Post-colonialism’, ‘Law and Theatre’; ‘Jean-Luc Nancy and Law’; ‘Agamben and Law’.
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Birkbeck Law Press
About the Series
Birkbeck Law School has been recognised as an international centre of research excellence, specialising in legal theory and theoretically informed socio-legal research and pioneering critical approaches to scholarship.
Birkbeck Law Press aims to develop a distinct publishing profile by addressing the legal challenges of late modernity. Globalisation and the move towards universal legal values, which should respect cultural specificities and local conditions, has created the urgent need for greater dialogue and understanding between the major schools of thought and legal systems in the world. Most legal publishing, driven by the needs of specialisation and the state-based nature of positive law, has not systematically addressed these concerns.
Constitutional Theory: Schmitt after Derrida
1st Edition
By Jacques de Ville
June 10, 2019
This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of Schmitt’s texts, including Dictatorship (1921), The Concept of the Political (…
Crime Fiction and the Law
1st Edition
Edited By Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan, Patricia Tuitt
June 15, 2018
This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law and justice, it considers a range of …
Land Law and Urban Policy in Context: Essays on the Contributions of Patrick McAuslan
1st Edition
Edited By Thanos Zartaloudis
April 25, 2018
This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan. It is a collection that narrates, analyses and critiques McAuslan’s contributions, as well as offering substantive perspectives on how his work has impacted the legal fields in which he …
Spinoza, Right and Absolute Freedom
1st Edition
By Stephen Connelly
November 11, 2016
Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the …
Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political
1st Edition
By William Rasch
August 18, 2004
This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over ‘peace’. The notion …
Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge
1st Edition
By Drucilla Cornell, Karin van Marle, Albie Sachs
August 26, 2015
Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the …
Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
By Francisco Ortega
June 09, 2015
This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is at …
Law and Sacrifice: Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law
1st Edition
Edited By Johan Van der Walt
March 02, 2006
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, …
The Politics of Imagination
1st Edition
Edited By Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand
December 17, 2012
The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly …
New Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political
1st Edition
Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan rua Wall, Costas Douzinas
July 05, 2012
New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal.…
Revenge versus Legality: Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
1st Edition
By Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, James Guimond
August 18, 2011
In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a …
The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics
1st Edition
By Tarik Kochi
May 27, 2010
The Other’s War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches – just war theory, classical realist, …
Human Rights, or Citizenship?
1st Edition
By Paulina Tambakaki
January 25, 2010
While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and the consolidation of the human rights regime, have all contributed to a shift in focus: from an …
The Four Lacanian Discourses: or Turning Law Inside Out
1st Edition
By Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder
January 18, 2010
This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even…
The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love?
1st Edition
By Jack Anderson
January 04, 2010
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson …
The Eye of the Law: Two Essays on Legal History
1st Edition
By Michael Stolleis
September 17, 2008
Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being ‘above’ us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from …
Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution
1st Edition
By Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
July 15, 2008
How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.…
Constitutions: Writing Nations, Reading Difference
1st Edition
By Judith Pryor
August 09, 2007
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution. Can a nation have an …
Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Louis E. Wolcher
September 27, 2005
What is the law of the law? What produces our craven subservience to linguistic norms, and our shocking indifference to the phenomenon of universal suffering? In a path-breaking new work of philosophy, Louis Wolcher seeks to answer these questions from the standpoint of Zen Buddhism. Bringing an …
