The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
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.

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The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
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.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367566586
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/29/2021
Series: Discourses of Law
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and Visiting Professor in the School of Social Sciences at New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Thanos Zartaloudis is Reader in Legal History and Theory at Kent Law School and Visiting Professor at the Center of Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Author Biographies viii

Prelude: Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis xvii

1 The imaginary origins of the common law Piyel Haldar 1

2 A quiet and secret place - an enquiry on the Dreamer God, a god without a name Pierre Legendre 11

3 Borges, The Keystone and the legal imagination Tobias Smith 16

4 A triptych of lawlessness Stephen Webster 19

5 When dragons did rise C. F. Black 35

6 Doctorum agnomina: on the satirical laws of academia Valérie Hayaert 41

7 The Corbels Act, London 1909 Jake Tilson 57

8 Report to the Treasurer of Injustice Frederick Dolan 62

9 Ennomie William Watkin 67

10 Twelve theses on the exorbitant principle that a lawyer must work for the poor Adam Gearey 72

11 Intha gnalamum poy thaano - imagining the other in contract Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen 78

12 Ad vitam aeternam: a legal text that remains relevant Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 86

13 In nomine patris Chiara Bottici 93

14 It is forbidden to sell your soul to the devil Tiziano Toracca 98

15 The Court of the Monuments Hayley Gibson 102

16 Lexicon Act 2020 Gary Watt 114

17 Carrier bag law Bernard Keenan 119

18 Law in the round Linda G. Mills 125

19 Και μηδεν μοριον αποκεκρυφθαι. the bare life of the Stoic sage Phillip Mitsis 129

20 Move over, Felix: Addressing the impact of the domestic cat James Attlee 135

21 The Proof of Judicial Omniscience Act (UK) David Campbell 144

22 The rule book of a dreamer Niall Brooks 152

23 The Dismantler Karsten Schubert 154

24 Breathing law - real imaginings of what it might mean to matter differently Daniela Gandorfer 162

25 Untitled. Unreliable. Unconfirmed Deepak Unnikrishnan 174

26 Legal fictions: a dialogue imagining law Elizabeth Cowie 179

27 COIL Justin Clemens 185

28 Waiting for law: a play in one act Stacy Douglas 187

29 The protocol of mobile rooms Aristide Antonas 192

30 Law No. 9321/2028: Exceptional Regulations for Communal Living and Use on the Ground of Higher Order Natural Sites Thanos Zartaloudis 196

31 A confidential private placement memorandum Pierre Schlag 200

32 The Statute of Snouts - an act for the elongation of noses Peter Goodrich 206

33 Science and Scholarship Restoration Act Bernhard Schlink 210

34 Constitutional exhaustion Pierre Schlag 212

Index 219

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