Thinking Through the Body of the Law

The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes, and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This subjected body is necessary for the law's existence.
Thinking Through the Body of the Law reconceives the role of the body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity, taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual harassment.

Author: Pheng Cheah
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/01/1996
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.53w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780814715451

About the Author
Cheah, Pheng: - Pheng Cheah teaches in the English Department, Cornell University.Grbich, Judith: - Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University.Fraser, David: - David Fraser teaches in the Faculty of Law, the University of Sydney. Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe Univ