Ley Lines : the imaginary origins of the common law / Piyel Haldar -- 'A quiet and secret place' -- an enquiry on the dreamer God, a God without a name / Pierre Legendre -- Borges, the keystone and the legal imagination / Tobias Smith -- A triptych of lawlessness / Stephen Webster -- When dragons did rise / Christine F. Black -- Doctorum agnominal : on the satirical laws of Academia / Valerie Hayaert -- The Corbels Act / Jake Tilson -- Report to the treasurer of injustice / Frederick Dolan -- Ennomie / William Watkin -- Twelve theses on the exorbitant principle that a lawyer must work for the poor / Adam Gearey -- Intha Gnalamum Poy Thaano -- imagining the other in contract / Swethaa Ballakrishnen -- Ad Vitam Aeternam : a legal text that remains relevant / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- In nomine / Patris Chiara Bottici -- It is forbidden to sell your soul to the devil / Tiziano Toracca -- The court of monuments / Hayley Gibson Chapter -- Lexicon Act 2020 / Gary Watt -- Carrier Bag Law / Bernard Keenan -- An Act for the Installing of Circles / Linda Mills -- the bare life of the Stoic Sage / Philip Mitsis -- Move over, Felix : addressing the impact of the domestic cat / James Attlee -- The proof of Judicial Omniscience Act (UK) / David Campbell -- The rule book of a dreamer / Niall Brooks -- Freedom as critique / Karsten Schubert -- Breathing law / Daniela Gandorfer -- Untitled. Unreliable. Unconfirmed / Deepak Unnikrishnan -- Legal fictions -- a dialogue imagining law / Elizabeth Cowie -- COIL / Justin Clemens -- Waiting for law -- a play in one act / Stacy Douglas -- The protocol of mobile rooms / Aristide Antonas -- Law No. 9321/2028 -- exceptional regulations for communal living and use on the ground of higher order natural sites / Thanos Zartaloudis -- A confidential private placement memorandum / Pierre Schlag -- The statute of snouts -- an Act for the Elongation of Noses / Peter Goodrich -- Science and Scholarship Restoration Act / Bernhard Schlink.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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