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Foundations of Sovereign Authority
(Palgrave, 2018)
As post-Renaissance Europe creates modern concepts of statehood and sovereignty, figures like Bodin, Grotius, and Hobbes undertake ‘constructive’, system-building theories of sovereign authority. Dramatists, in the meantime, ...
Selecting the memory, controlling the myth
(Routledge, 2017-07-20)
Notwithstanding age-old aspirations to ground law in rational thought, the constitutive role of myth perennially resurfaces. Political mythology is always a reconstruction of historical memory, and that process becomes ...
Beyond ‘memory laws’: Towards a general theory of law and historical discourse
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
There are countless ways in which law shapes public awareness of history. The current concept of ‘memory laws’ denotes only a small subset, and even that concept breaks down into several types. We must distinguish, for ...
Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship
Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim, guarantees greater freedom for others. This book rejects that approach, arguing that democracies have better ways of combating violence and ...
"Where be his quiddities now?": Law and Language in Hamlet
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Abuses of monarchy, nobility, church or wealth are certainly central to Shakespeare. However, depictions of law and its abuses do not casually blend into other critical images of power or authority in the corpus. In Hamlet, ...
Hate speech and the normative foundations of regulation
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-12-16)
Racist incidents on American university campuses in the 1980s triggered a storm of publications by scholars who coined the phrase ‘hate speech’ for the legal lexicon. Some of the offences had already been subject to legal ...
Review of Leone Niglia, "The Struggle for European Private Law: A Critique of Codification"
(2016)
Controversies around the European Commission’s attempt to codify European Union private law now usher the codification saga into the twenty-first century. Much EU scholarship has focused on the adoption of the Draft Common ...
The Reality and Hyperreality of Human Rights: Public Consciousness and the Mass Media
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Most human rights scholarship remains highly formalist, with a focus on norms and institutions. However, at least as powerful as, if not more powerful than, those norms and institutions, are the mass media. Consonant with ...