Latour and the Passage of Law

Title page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
1 From the Conseil d’État to Gaia: Bruno Latour on Law, Surfaces and Depth......Page 25
2 Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of Existence......Page 46
3 On Devices and Logics of Legal Sense: Toward Socio-technical Legal Analysis......Page 69
4 ‘The Crown Wears Many Hats’: Canadian Aboriginal Law and the Black-boxing of Empire......Page 101
5 Providing the Missing Link: Law after Latour’s Passage......Page 130
6 The Life and Deaths of a Dispute: An Inquiry into Matters of Law......Page 168
7 Plasma! Notes on Bruno Latour’s Metaphysics of Law......Page 205
8 The Conditions of a Good Judgment: From Law to Internal Affairs Police Investigations......Page 217
9 In the Name of the Law: Ventriloquism and Juridical Matters......Page 243
10 Laboratory Life and the Economics of Science in Law......Page 281
11 Bartleby, Barbarians and the Legality of Literature......Page 312
12 The Strange Entanglement of Jurimorphs......Page 339
List of Contributors......Page 362
Index......Page 365