This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the
jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a …

This book examines the divergent medical, political and legal constructions of intersex. The
authors use empirical data to explore how intersex people are embodied through these …

Whilst the law maintains a right to silence, the sensorial and performative dimensions of that
silence are seldom considered. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach, informed …

In this chapter, I reconsider and reorient performance as a critical practice in law and the
humanities, turning away from the philosophically and sociologically inflected variants of …

To theatricalize law is to ask lawyers to be aware and responsive to the world that creates
them and to be conscious of worlds beyond words. For the theatrical reminds us that law has …

This chapter examines voyeuristic photographs made in Japan evidence of peeping to
explore the conflation of intimacy, disclosure and pleasure. The chapter argues that …

This chapter takes us into the most bodily of cultural legal studies genres—theatrical
jurisprudence. While this new field has burgeoned into an exciting array of scholarship, this …

In this paper, the assumptions of Miranda Fricker's theory of epistemic (in) justice read in the
context of the neo-Wittgensteinian philosophical trend, also called therapeutic or resolute …

This chapter focuses on irony as a way of elucidating what is at stake in this project: as a
way of characterising what is distinctive about cultural legal studies and the critical insights it …

In her autobiographical work Happening Annie Ernaux writes about the clandestine abortion
she had at the age of 23. The events take place in 1963, at a time when abortion was still …