Jurisprudence of jurisdiction /
edited by Shaun McVeigh.
- 1st ed.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, UK ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.
- x, 260 p. : 24 cm.
Includes index.
Questions of jurisdiction -- The metaphysics of jurisdiction -- On the founding of law's jurisdiction and the politics of sexual difference : the case of Roman law -- Guantanamo Bay, "abandoned being," and the constitution of jurisdiction -- Conjuring Palestine : the jurisdiction of dispossession -- Jurisdiction and nation-building : tall tales in nineteenth century Aotearoa, New Zealand -- The suppression of state interests in international litigation -- Mapping territories -- Placing jurisdiction -- A jurisdiction of body and desire : exploring the boundaries of bodily control in prostitution law -- Subjects of jurisdiction : the dying, Northern Territory, Australia, 1995-1997 -- Embracing jurisdiction : John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance -- Jurisdiction and the colonisation of sublime enjoyment.
This book investigates the difference that jurisdiction continues to make to the ordering of normative existence. It also follows the speculation that without an account of jurisdiction, jurisprudence would be left with no power to address the conditions of attachment to legal and political order.--Provided by publishe