LAW AND NATURE (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY)
Written by David Delaney
Published by Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge
in 2003
ISBN: 0521831261
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- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- LAW
- NATURAL HISTORY
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LAW AND NATURE (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY)
Written by David Delaney.
Stock no. 1827827
1st.
2003.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. Blue glazed boards. x and 440 pages including index. ISBN: 0521831261. Board edges rubbed. Boards are scuffed. Text block a little grubby. Some pencil annotation throughout, mainly underlining in pencil.
Front cover
Contents
- Part I Situating nature:
- Introduction: the pragmatics of nature and the situation of law
- The nature of modern political discourse: doing things with nature
- The natures of scientific discourse
- The natures of legal discourse
- The natures of legal practice
- Part II Rendering nature:
- It's a slippery slope: law and the forces of nature
- Doctrinal wilderness and the path of interpretation: law and wilderness
- Wild justice and endangerment of meaning: law and endangered species
- Puka's choice: law and animal experimentation
- Fear of falling: law and bestiality
- The births of nature and tradition: law and reproductive technologies
- Doctirinal mutations at the edge of meaning: law and genetic screening
- Return of the beast within: law and biological criminal defenses
- Controlling dreams: law and the involuntary medication of prisoners
- Part III Judging nature:
- Beyond "nature": the material life of the legal