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This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors GENESIS Introduction—D.Manderson
EXODUS Getting Down to Cases: Can a Levinasian Ethics Generate Norms?—D.Perpich
Levinasian Ethics and the Concept of Law—J.Crowe
Questions for a Reluctant Jurisprudence of Alterity—N.Smith
Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law—J.Stauffer
LEVITICUS Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice—R.Gibbs
‘Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs’: Levinas and the law of torts—D.Manderson
To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the ‘morality of law’—M.Diamantides
NUMBERS Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law—S.Jodoin
The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: ‘Illegal’ Immigrants Stand Over American Law—M.Failinger
Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish contexts after the Shoah—D.Glowacka
DEUTERONOMY Anarchic Law—S.Critchley (with a response by D.Manderson)
Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity—J.Sims
Rethinking Justice with Levinas—S.Roberts-Cady
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This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.