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These 13 essays explore Bruno Latour's legal theory from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. They combine analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.
Contents
1. IntroductionKyle McGee
2. From the Conseil D'Etat to Gaia: Bruno Latour on Law, Surfaces and DepthDavid Saunders
3. Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of ExistenceGraham Harman
4. On Devices and Logics of Legal Sense: Towards Socio-Technical Legal AnalysisKyle McGee
5. 'The Crown Wears Many Hats': Canadian Aboriginal Law and the Black-boxing of EmpireMariana Valverde & Adriel Weaver
6. Providing the Missing Link: Law After Latour's PassageSerge Gutwirth
7. The Life and Deaths of a Dispute: An Inquiry into Matters of LawNiels van Dijk
8. Plasma! Notes on Bruno Latour's Metaphysics of LawLaurent de Sutter
9. The Conditions of a Good Judgement: From Law to Internal Affairs Police InvestigationsCedric Moreau de Bellaing (trans. Solene Semichon)
10. In the Name of the Law: Ventriloquism and Judicial MattersFrancois Cooren
11. Laboratory Life and the Economics of Science in LawDavid Caudill
12. Bartleby, Barbarians and the Legality of LiteratureFaith Barter
13. The Strange Entanglement of JurimorphsBruno Latour
