Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09356-3
Filip Strandberg Hassellind
Abstract In this paper based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to critical scholarship in international law by providing an investigation into the engagement with international law by actors in civil society working against son preference primarily in Tirupati, India. I suggest that the turn to the international legal order by civic actors should be theorized as something else than as merely coming ‘from above’, ‘from below’ or as a ‘translation’ of ‘global’ law to ‘local’ conditions. Instead, I propose that the mobilization of international law within Tirupati’s civil society should be seen as an emancipatory undertaking, an act of resistance with the overarching ambition to reclaim the zenana . In that, I argue, the strategies within Tirupati’s civil society are more appropriately understood as critical international law put into practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09358-1
George Duke
Abstract Habermas’ theory of popular sovereignty has received comparatively little sustained critical attention in the Anglo-American literature since initial responses to Between Facts and Norms . In light of subsequent work on group agency, this paper argues that Habermas’ reconstruction of popular sovereignty—in its denial of the normative force of collective citizen action—is best understood as a renunciation of the doctrine. The paper is structured in three sections. Section 1 examines Habermas’ treatment of popular sovereignty prior to Between Facts and Norms as both (i) a principle of constitutional legitimacy or normative justification for the modern Rechtsstaat and (ii) a concept of legitimation for the rule of the ascendant liberal bourgeoisie. Section 2 then argues that Habermas’ reconstruction of popular sovereignty in Between Facts and Norms , by discounting the role of collective citizen agency in the justification of the modern constitutional state, empties the doctrine of its core normative content. The final section briefly elaborates on this claim by reference to Habermas’ theory of the public sphere.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09361-6
Fleur Johns
Abstract Humanitarian maps assembled using digital technology are indicative of transformations underway in how the world is made knowable, sensible, and actionable, including for international legal purposes. These transformations are exemplified by the Missing Maps Project (MMP), an initiative of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, a U.S.-registered non-profit, and three other non-governmental organisations operating internationally: American Red Cross; British Red Cross; and Médecins Sans Frontières. Projects such as the MMP make it harder for international lawyers to lay claim to, and seek to imaginatively reorient, shared repositories of common sense. Meanwhile, international legal scholars continue to propagate ideas that the world may be reimagined with their help, largely without regard to such transformations. In lieu of imagination’s standard evocation to the end of enhancing critical agency in international legal writing, this article contends that the idiosyncratic notion of imagination advanced in the writings of Walter Benjamin may be better attuned to ongoing shifts in sense-making apparent in international humanitarian mapping. Walter Benjamin’s atypical rendering of imagination as a ‘purely receptive, uncreative’ force in a field of technological reproduction offers international legal scholars another way of thinking about agency and prospects for re-forming their field in the face of its burgeoning digitalisation.
使用数字技术组装的人道主义地图表明，世界如何变得可知、明智和可操作，包括出于国际法律目的，正在发生变化。失踪地图项目(Missing Maps Project, MMP)是在美国注册的非营利组织人道主义开放地图小组(Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)的一项倡议，它还包括另外三个在国际上运作的非政府组织:美国红十字会(American Red Cross);英国红十字会;和无国界医生组织。像MMP这样的项目使得国际律师更难以宣称拥有共同的常识宝库，并寻求富有想象力的重新定位。与此同时，国际法律学者继续传播这样一种观点，即在他们的帮助下，世界可能会被重新构想，而在很大程度上没有考虑到这种转变。本文认为，在瓦尔特·本雅明(Walter Benjamin)的著作中提出的独特的想象力概念，可能会更好地适应国际人道主义绘图中明显的意义构建的持续变化，而不是以提高国际法律写作中的关键机构为目的的标准唤起。沃尔特·本雅明(Walter Benjamin)将想象力非典型地描绘为技术复制领域中“纯粹接受性、非创造性”的力量，这为国际法律学者提供了另一种思考代理的方式，以及面对迅速发展的数字化重塑其领域的前景。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09360-7
Vincent Goding, Kieran Tranter
Abstract This article argues that legal discourses about robots are framed within a limiting ‘human paradigm.’ While this is not a specific failure of lawyers, it has significant consequences for law in a digital future. This visualising of robots has its origins in mainstream twentieth-century science fictional tropes of artificial beings. This article begins by identifying the predominant science fiction tropes regarding artificial beings as a source of anxiety for human futures, as located in discrete bodies and as separate from humans. The article then traces this ‘human paradigm’ in robot law scholarship. It is shown how a focus on embodiment and separation disrupts appreciation of the emerging partial disembodiment and hybridity of digital autonomy. There is a continual sense of needing to keep robots and humans distinct and separate, which is not how digital futures are manifesting.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4
Silvana Tapia Tapia
{"title":"Human Rights Penality and Violence Against Women: The Coloniality of Disembodied Justice","authors":"Silvana Tapia Tapia","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09355-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47240092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5
Andreas Rahmatian
{"title":"The Two Forms of Legal Time: Pierre Legendre’s “La Durée Poignardée”: Remarques sur la Structure et le Temps","authors":"Andreas Rahmatian","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41555902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-27DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7
M. Tedeschi, M. Viljanen
{"title":"Lost in Transduction: From Law and Code’s Intra-actions to the Right to Explanation in the European Data Protection Regulations","authors":"M. Tedeschi, M. Viljanen","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09352-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8
Benjamin Goh
{"title":"From Paratexts to Print Machinery","authors":"Benjamin Goh","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09351-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41998253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9
Flora Renz
{"title":"The Boundaries of Legal Personhood: Disability, Gender and the Cyborg","authors":"Flora Renz","doi":"10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-023-09350-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44360,"journal":{"name":"LAW AND CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44383623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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