Interrupting the Legal Person
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This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal person as a technical and grammatical question that varies across different legal traditions and jurisdictions? Does this cut across different ways of living and speaking law?
The chapters in this volume interrogate the role of the person and personhood in different contexts, jurisdictions, and legal traditions. This volume is an appealing read for anyone interested in rich contemporary conversations around legal personhood, and in interrupting and interrogating assumptions which we may take for granted.
Chapter 1. Reframing Colonial Law's Criminally Accused Persons; George Pavlich
- Chapter 2. Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered; Val Napoleon
- Chapter 3. Foucault's Perhaps: Madness, Suffering and the Interruption of Legal Personality in Foucault, Supiot and Hegel; Johan Van Der Walt
- Chapter 4. Interrupting the Legal Person: Thinking Responsibility with Hannah Arendt; Jennifer L. Culbert
- Chapter 5. The Role of the Person in Modern Constitutional Law: How State-Inflicted Harms Become Personal; Richard Mailey
- Chapter 6. The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Foucault’s Historical Method; Amy Swiffen and Shoshana Paget
- Chapter 7. Interrupted by Death: The Legal Personhood and Non-Personhood of Corpses; James R. Martel
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He has written, co-written, or edited more than ninety books in the fields of law and political science.