The Structural Limits of the Law

This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and to address.

Autorentext

Stephen M. Young is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Zusammenfassung
This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and to address.

Inhalt

Introduction: Events, Orders, and Borders 1. Legal Events: The Interrelated Construction of Individual and Political Bodies 2. Domestic Bodies, Criminal Bodies: the McGirt event 3. Mining Progress in International Law: the Nevsun event 4. Farming the Fruits of Empire: the Strathboss event 5. Hierarchical Reconstruction, Circulating Devaluation 6. Resisting Authority, Constructing Hierarchy 7. Remarks