New Law School Publication

Professor Patrick Hanafin of The School of Law is the co-editor with Rosi Braidotti and Claire Colebrook of a major new interdisciplinary collection, Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), which engages with the impact of a thinking of law with Gilles Deleuze.

Professor Hanafin said: "It is an attempt to engage in another mode of doing jurisprudence which places the emphasis on the material bodies of citizens and their interests rather than on the abstract formless subject of law. In particular the contributors to the collection explore the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life."

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