Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law pursues an emerging interest in the conceptual thematic of jurisdiction within legal studies; as it maintains that an adequate understanding of the power of law requires an attention, not just to law's formal aspects, but to its technology, its institution and its instrumentality; not just to the representation of law, but to its expression.

Auteur

Edward Mussawir is based in the Department of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Résumé
Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the expression and the representation of law. Deleuze is taken as offering not just an important methodological recovery of an 'expressionism' in philosophy - specifically through Nietzsche and Spinoza - but also a surprisingly practical jurisprudence which recasts the major technical terms of jurisdiction (persons, things and actions) in terms of their distinctively expressive or performative modalities. In paying attention to law's expression, Deleuze is thus shown to offer an account of how meaning may attach to the instrument and medium of law and how legal desire may be registered within the texture and technology of jurisdiction.Contributing both to a renewed transposition of Deleuze into contemporary legal theory, as well as to an emerging interest in law's technology, institution and instrumentality in critical legal studies, Jurisdiction in Deleuze will be of considerable interest.

Contenu

Preface 1. Deleuze and Jurisdiction: Expressionism in Jurisprudence Part 1: Masks and Personal Jurisdiction 2. Personal Jurisdiction: The 'Method of Dramatization' in the Law of Persons 3. Minority and Personal Jurisdiction: Judging Sex in Re Alex 4. Persons of Animal Law Part 2: Rights and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction 5. Deleuze, The Law of Things and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction 6. To Put to Flight: The Right of Possession Part 3: Actions and Procedure 7. The Activity of Judgment: Law of Actions and the Procedural Genre of Jurisprudence 8. Jurisdiction of Control: Judgment and Procedural Forms in Thomas v Mowbray 9. The Locality of Law: Jurisdiction in Deleuze