Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos - Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline.

The book contains five sections:

• Spatiotemporal
• Sense
• Body
• Text
• Matter

Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area.

The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity.

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is Professor of Law and Theory and Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster, UK.

This is a rarity in the handbook form, a work of novelty and inspiration addressing law in the Anthropocene. Ambitious, argute, and cutting edge, these essays engage in a material, affective and supra-disciplinary manner with the fluid presences and synaesthetically apprehended atmospherics of legality.

Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York.

This major new collection challenges received notions of what legal theory and scholarship entail. Working from the fields edges, its orientation to connection, and new intellectual conversations, foreground the rich, embodied, hopeful and disturbing practices of our existence, inviting legal and non-legal scholars to rethink what they know and feel about law.

Davina Cooper, Research Professor, Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London.

Edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

First published 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, author.

Title: Routledge handbook of law and theory / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018001605 | ISBN 9781138956469 (hbk) | ISBN 9781317353003 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781317352990 (epub) | ISBN 9781317352983 (kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: LawPhilosophy.

Classification: LCC K237 .P45 2018 | DDC 340/.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018001605

ISBN: 978-1-138-95646-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-66573-3 (ebk)

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