RETHINKING LAW AND VIOLENCE C

Conceptualized outside the theoretical framing of both liberal as well as critical approaches, this book re-imagines the law by exploring the contradictions and polarities of in terms of its relationship with violence. It encompasses and interweaves themes and ideas as diverse as death penalty, community might, state sovereignty on the one hand,to animal rights, sexual consent, childrens agency and LGBT rights, on the other. While acknowledging law is fundamentally and inherently tied to violence, the objective of this eclectic collection is respond to and engage with the violence of law by exploring alternate ways of conceptualising, reading, practising, and making the law.