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Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come.
The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film, science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics, architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety of novel critical perspectives. The contributions aim to inspire reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and constructs life.
Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines, this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and an increasingly derelict legal system.
Contents
Prelude 1. Ley Lines: The Imaginary Origins of the Common Law 2. 'A Quiet and Secret Place' - An Enquiry on the Dreamer God, a God Without a Name 3. Borges, The Keystone and the Legal Imagination 4. A Triptych of Lawlessness 5. When Dragons Did Rise 6. Doctorum Agnomina: On the Satirical Laws of Academia 7. The Corbels Act 8. Report to the Treasurer of Injustice 9. Ennomie 10. Twelve Theses on the Exorbitant Principle that a Lawyer Must Work for the Poor 11. Intha Gnalamum Poy Thaano - Imagining the Other in Contract 12. Ad Vitam Aeternam: a Legal Text That Remains Relevant 13. In Nomine Patris 14. It is Forbidden to Sell Your Soul to the Devil 15. The Court of Monuments 16. Lexicon Act 2020 17. Carrier Bag Law 18. An Act for the Installing of Circles 19. Kαὶ μηδὲν μόριον ἀποκεκρύφθαι: The Bare Life of the Stoic Sage 20. Move over, Felix: Addressing the impact of the domestic cat 21. The Proof of Judicial Omniscience Act (UK) 22. The Rule Book of a Dreamer 23. Freedom as Critique 24. Breathing Law 25. Untitled. Unreliable. Unconfirmed 26. Legal Fictions - a Dialogue Imagining Law 27. COIL 28. Waiting for Law - A Play In One Act 29. The Protocol of Mobile Rooms 30. Law No. 9321/2028 - Exceptional Regulations for Communal Living and Use on the Ground of Higher Order Natural Sites 31. A Confidential Private Placement Memorandum 32. The Statute of Snouts - An Act for the Elongation of Noses 33. Science and Scholarship Restoration Act
