When Law Stands Still: Land Contracts in English Law and Law's “Abandonment” of Everyday LifeLaw and Critique - Tập 12 - Trang 105-134 - 2001
Igor Stramignoni
After the 1989 reform on land contracts - the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 - a contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land could only be made in writing. Behind what appears to be merely a “technical” rule of private law lies, hidden, something that is rather more serious than that - the figure itself of nothing less than the relationship between law an...... hiện toàn bộ
The Silence of the SirensLaw and Critique - Tập 10 - Trang 175-197 - 1999
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Risk is a projection of a specific temporality performed by the observer. However, this projection is doomed to impossibility because of the prohibiting problems of time, causality, subjectivity and relativity of risk. The observer is left only with a castrated projection that defies the role of science as a pedestal for the projection and institutes negation as its driving force. This projection ...... hiện toàn bộ
Narrative, Rhetorical Argument, and Ethical AuthorityLaw and Critique - Tập 10 - Trang 117-146 - 1999
Eugene Garver
The great challenge of rhetorical argument is to make discourse ethical without making it less logical. This challenge is of central importance throughout the full range of practical argument, and understanding the relation of the ethical to the logical is one of the principal contributions the humanities, in this case the study of rhetoric, can make to legal scholarship. Aristotle’s Rhetoric show...... hiện toàn bộ
Reconfiguring Sovereignties Through the Law: Indigenous Patrimonialization in the AmericasLaw and Critique - - Trang 1-21 - 2023
Patricio Espinosa
Since the last third of the twentieth century, the indigenous peoples of the Americas have claimed their sovereignty. There, it is possible to distinguish representations, in the form of marks of indigenous sovereignty, which go further than the modern concepts of state sovereignty and law, and compete with them. From then onwards, the liberal state has responded by creating ethnic administration ...... hiện toàn bộ