The jurisprudence of universal subjectivity: COVID-19, vulnerability and housing

K. S. Jobe
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Drawing upon Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory, the paper argues that the legal claims of homeless appellants before and during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate our universal vulnerability which stems from the essential, life-sustaining activities flowing from the ontological status of the human body. By recognizing that housing availability has constitutional significance because it provides for life-sustaining activities such as sleeping, eating and lying down, I argue that the legal rationale reviewed in the paper underscores the empirical, ontological reality of the body as the basis for a jurisprudence of universal vulnerability. By tracing the constitutional basis of this jurisprudence from Right to Travel to Eighth Amendment grounds during COVID-19, the paper outlines a distinct legal paradigm for understanding vulnerability in its universal, constant and essential form – one of the central premises of vulnerability theory.
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普遍主体性法学:新冠肺炎、脆弱性与住房
根据玛莎·芬曼的脆弱性理论,本文认为,在新冠肺炎大流行之前和期间,无家可归的上诉人的法律主张说明了我们的普遍脆弱性,这种脆弱性源于人体本体论地位所产生的基本、可维持生命的活动。通过认识到住房的可获得性具有宪法意义,因为它提供了睡眠、饮食和躺下等维持生命的活动,我认为,论文中审查的法律依据强调了身体的经验本体论现实,作为普遍脆弱性法学的基础。通过追溯这一判例的宪法基础,从新冠肺炎期间的旅行权到第八修正案,本文概述了一种独特的法律范式,以其普遍、恒定和基本的形式理解脆弱性——这是脆弱性理论的中心前提之一。
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