LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09356-3
Filip Strandberg Hassellind
{"title":"Civic Action Against Son Preference in Tirupati, India: Critical International Law Put into Practice?","authors":"Filip Strandberg Hassellind","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09356-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09356-3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to critical scholarship in international law by providing an investigation into the engagement with international law by actors in civil society working against son preference primarily in Tirupati, India. I suggest that the turn to the international legal order by civic actors should be theorized as something else than as merely coming ‘from above’, ‘from below’ or as a ‘translation’ of ‘global’ law to ‘local’ conditions. Instead, I propose that the mobilization of international law within Tirupati’s civil society should be seen as an emancipatory undertaking, an act of resistance with the overarching ambition to reclaim the zenana . In that, I argue, the strategies within Tirupati’s civil society are more appropriately understood as critical international law put into practice.","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"438 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134975231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09358-1
George Duke
{"title":"Habermas, Popular Sovereignty, and the Legitimacy of Law","authors":"George Duke","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09358-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09358-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Habermas’ theory of popular sovereignty has received comparatively little sustained critical attention in the Anglo-American literature since initial responses to Between Facts and Norms . In light of subsequent work on group agency, this paper argues that Habermas’ reconstruction of popular sovereignty—in its denial of the normative force of collective citizen action—is best understood as a renunciation of the doctrine. The paper is structured in three sections. Section 1 examines Habermas’ treatment of popular sovereignty prior to Between Facts and Norms as both (i) a principle of constitutional legitimacy or normative justification for the modern Rechtsstaat and (ii) a concept of legitimation for the rule of the ascendant liberal bourgeoisie. Section 2 then argues that Habermas’ reconstruction of popular sovereignty in Between Facts and Norms , by discounting the role of collective citizen agency in the justification of the modern constitutional state, empties the doctrine of its core normative content. The final section briefly elaborates on this claim by reference to Habermas’ theory of the public sphere.","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09361-6
Fleur Johns
{"title":"Digital Humanitarian Mapping and the Limits of Imagination in International Law","authors":"Fleur Johns","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09361-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09361-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Humanitarian maps assembled using digital technology are indicative of transformations underway in how the world is made knowable, sensible, and actionable, including for international legal purposes. These transformations are exemplified by the Missing Maps Project (MMP), an initiative of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, a U.S.-registered non-profit, and three other non-governmental organisations operating internationally: American Red Cross; British Red Cross; and Médecins Sans Frontières. Projects such as the MMP make it harder for international lawyers to lay claim to, and seek to imaginatively reorient, shared repositories of common sense. Meanwhile, international legal scholars continue to propagate ideas that the world may be reimagined with their help, largely without regard to such transformations. In lieu of imagination’s standard evocation to the end of enhancing critical agency in international legal writing, this article contends that the idiosyncratic notion of imagination advanced in the writings of Walter Benjamin may be better attuned to ongoing shifts in sense-making apparent in international humanitarian mapping. Walter Benjamin’s atypical rendering of imagination as a ‘purely receptive, uncreative’ force in a field of technological reproduction offers international legal scholars another way of thinking about agency and prospects for re-forming their field in the face of its burgeoning digitalisation.","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09360-7
Vincent Goding, Kieran Tranter
{"title":"The Robot and Human Futures: Visualising Autonomy in Law and Science Fiction","authors":"Vincent Goding, Kieran Tranter","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09360-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09360-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article argues that legal discourses about robots are framed within a limiting ‘human paradigm.’ While this is not a specific failure of lawyers, it has significant consequences for law in a digital future. This visualising of robots has its origins in mainstream twentieth-century science fictional tropes of artificial beings. This article begins by identifying the predominant science fiction tropes regarding artificial beings as a source of anxiety for human futures, as located in discrete bodies and as separate from humans. The article then traces this ‘human paradigm’ in robot law scholarship. It is shown how a focus on embodiment and separation disrupts appreciation of the emerging partial disembodiment and hybridity of digital autonomy. There is a continual sense of needing to keep robots and humans distinct and separate, which is not how digital futures are manifesting.","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135200543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4
Silvana Tapia Tapia
{"title":"Human Rights Penality and Violence Against Women: The Coloniality of Disembodied Justice","authors":"Silvana Tapia Tapia","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47240092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5
Andreas Rahmatian
{"title":"The Two Forms of Legal Time: Pierre Legendre’s “La Durée Poignardée”: Remarques sur la Structure et le Temps","authors":"Andreas Rahmatian","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41555902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-08-27DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7
M. Tedeschi, M. Viljanen
{"title":"Lost in Transduction: From Law and Code’s Intra-actions to the Right to Explanation in the European Data Protection Regulations","authors":"M. Tedeschi, M. Viljanen","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8
Benjamin Goh
{"title":"From Paratexts to Print Machinery","authors":"Benjamin Goh","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41998253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LAW AND CRITIQUEPub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9
Flora Renz
{"title":"The Boundaries of Legal Personhood: Disability, Gender and the Cyborg","authors":"Flora Renz","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44383623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}