Description
In perceptions of Western law there is an enduring disparity between law's pervasive power and its fragility. Many of these essays provide graphic accounts of law's tremendous shaping power in that massive occidental movement which settled and unsettled the globe. These accounts point to the West's encompassing and transforming of other peoples and other legal systems in ways which constitute and confirm the West in its own self-creation. Other essays deal with situations "within" the West which show how its identity is created, sustained, and also challenged in a constant reference to those contrary "others" which a powerful law has shaped and transformed. This challenge comes not least from the resistance of those "others"-resistances that profoundly disrupt the West and its law, revealing them as fractured at the seemingly confident core of their own self-constitution.
Contributors include Antony Anghie, Rolando Gaete, Alan Norrie, Dianne Otto, Paul Passavant, Jeannine Perdy, Colin Perrin, Annelise Riles, Roshan de Silva, and John Strawson, in addition to the editors.
About the Author
Eve Darian-Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Peter Fitzpatrick is Professor of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472109562
Author Eve Darian-Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 665g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 154mm * 40mm