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Scott-Douglas Sionaidh

Law after modernity - London Hart Publishing 2013 - 413p

Table of contents
1. Introduction: Beyond the 'Degree Zero' of Law after Modernity;
Jurisprudentia;
Law and the Image;
'Modernity';
'After' Modernity;
'Law';
Beyond the 'Degree Zero' of Law in Modernity;
Methodology;
2. Autonomous Law or Redundant Law? The Elusive Nature of Legal Theory;
Autonomous Law;
Failures of Legal Autonomy;
Replacements and New Understandings;
A Broader Definition of Law?;
Against the 'One Big Thing';
3. Law as System: The Missing Multidimensionality of Law;
Methodical Law;
Undermining the System;
Beyond State Law;
Complexity and Interesting Relationships;
The Missing Multidimensionality of Law;
Multiple Relationships: 'Strange Loops and Tangled Hierarchies';
Cubist Law? The Lack of a Singular Perspective;
4. Reconfiguring the Legal Landscape: The Sojourn of Legal Pluralism;
Disorder, Entropy, Chaos: Is Law Like Literature?;
A Plurality of Laws and Legal Pluralism;
Problematic Pluralism;
Positive Crossings, Engagements and Perspectives: Turbulent Beauty?;
Visualising Law Today;
Conclusion;
5. The Injustice of Law after Modernity;
Injustice, Insecurity and Flexible, Private Justice;
Globalisation and International Commerce;
Privatisation, Flexible Law, Governance and Insecurity;
Conclusion;
6. Law, Justice and Injustice;
The Confusions of Justice;
The Proximity of Justice to Law;
Can Justice Ever Be Transnational?;
Transnational Justice;
Justice after Modernity;
7. Legal Justice I: 'Maimed Justice' and the Rule of Law;
Maimed Justice;
A Common Conception of Justice? Justice and the Rule of Law;
The Shameful Absence of the Rule of Law;
8. Legal Justice II: Reclaiming the Rule of Law from its 'Dark Side'-Critical Legal Justice;
The Critiques;
Against the Critiques;
The Need for the Rule of Law;
The Rule of Law Transfigured: Critical Legal Justice;
Conclusion;
9. The Enigma of Human Rights;
A Conceptual Lack of Clarity;
Foundations;
Scepticism;
Why Then: An Historical Investigation;
Why Are We Still so Preoccupied with Human Rights?;
Juridification of Human Rights;
Pluralism, Complexity and Human Rights;
10. Critical Legal Justice and Beyond: Cosmopolitanism;
Cosmopolitanism;
The Critique of Cosmopolitanism;
Cosmopolitan 'Law'?;
Conclusion;
11. Beyond Cosmopolitanism: The Murky World of Governance and Global 'Justice';
Reflexive Justice?;
Accountability;
Restorative and Responsive Justice;
Reinforcing Critical Legal Justice;
Anarchic Resistance to Injustice;
12. Conclusion: Law and Justice after Modernity;
Diagnosis and Critique;
Justice;
Resistance and Demanding Justice

ISBN: 9781841130293

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law - Philosophy 2. Jurisprudence - History - 21st Century3. Postmodernism

Dewey Class. No.: 340.100000 / SCO