Law's Empire
Law's Empire, Symposium Issue of Social Identities, Autumn 2007
10 Pages Posted: 22 Jul 2007
Abstract
Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding "Law's Empire" in all of its cultural, political, and economic dimensions. The questions arising from these intersections, and addressing imperialisms past and present forms the subject matter of a special symposium issue of Social Identities under the editorship of Griffith University's Rob McQueen, and UBC's Wes Pue and with contributions from McQueen, Ian Duncanson, Renisa Mawani, David Williams, Emma Cunliffe, Chidi Oguamanam, W. Wesley Pue, Fatou Camara, and Dianne Kirkby. This paper introduces the volume, forthcoming in late 2007.
The central problematique of this issue has previously been explored through the 2005 Law's Empire conference, an informal but vibrant postcolonial legal studies network.
Keywords: colonialism, law, post-colonialism, empire, aboriginality, native law, Mabo, native title, gender, labour, legal culture, film, whiteness, Nigeria, Australia, Canada, Senegal, New Zealand, Maori,
JEL Classification: K00, K10, K31, K33, K40, K41
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