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The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws

Edited by: Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis

ISBN13: 9780367566586
Published: June 2021
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £35.99



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Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come.

The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film, science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics, architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety of novel critical perspectives. The contributions aim to inspire reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and constructs life.

Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines, this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and an increasingly derelict legal system.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence, Law and Literature
Contents:
Prelude
Peter Goodrich & Thanos Zartaloudis
1. Ley Lines: The Imaginary Origins of the Common Law
Piyel Haldar
2. ‘A Quiet and Secret Place’ – An Enquiry on the Dreamer God, a God Without a Name
Pierre Legendre
3. Borges, The Keystone and the Legal Imagination
Tobias Smith
4. A Triptych of Lawlessness
Stephen Webster
5. When Dragons Did Rise
Christine F. Black
6. Doctorum agnomina: On the Satirical Laws of Academia
Valérie Hayaert
7. The Corbels Act
Jake Tilson
8. Report to the Treasurer of Injustice
Frederick Dolan
9. Ennomie
William Watkin
10. Twelve Theses on the Exorbitant Principle that a Lawyer Must Work for the Poor
Adam Gearey
11. Intha Gnalamum Poy Thaano – Imagining the Other in Contract
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
12. Ad Vitam Aeternam: a Legal Text That Remains Relevant
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
13. In Nomine Patris
Chiara Bottici
14. It is Forbidden to Sell Your Soul to the Devil
Tiziano Toracca
15. The Court of Monuments
Hayley Gibson
16. Lexicon Act 2020
Gary Watt
17. Carrier Bag Law
Bernard Keenan
18. An Act for the Installing of Circles
Linda Mills
19. Kαὶ μηδὲν μόριον ἀποκεκρύφθαι: The Bare Life of the Stoic Sage
Philip Mitsis
20. Move over, Felix: Addressing the impact of the domestic cat
James Attlee
21. The Proof of Judicial Omniscience Act (UK)
David Campbell
22. The Rule Book of a Dreamer
Niall Brooks
23. Freedom as Critique
Karsten Schubert
24. Breathing Law
Daniela Gandorfer
25. Untitled. Unreliable. Unconfirmed
Deepak Unnikrishnan
26. Legal Fictions – a Dialogue Imagining Law
Elizabeth Cowie
27. COIL
Justin Clemens
28. Waiting for Law – A Play In One Act
Stacy Douglas
29. The Protocol of Mobile Rooms
Aristide Antonas
30. Law No.
9321/2028 – Exceptional Regulations for Communal Living and Use on the Ground of Higher Order Natural Sites
Thanos Zartaloudis
31. A Confidential Private Placement Memorandum
Pierre Schlag
32. The Statute of Snouts – An Act for the Elongation of Noses
Peter Goodrich
33. Science and Scholarship Restoration Act
Bernhard Schlink