Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1844503
Klaus Kotzé
South Africa's invocation of its Disaster Management Act in response to the outbreak of the novel Corona virus, Covid-19, presents a clear juncture in its contemporary Constitutional order. The ways in which power functions and the dynamics and signification it conveys are central to how the state is commanded and how law is communicated. Under the State of Disaster, an abnormality assumes dominance. The techniques of power that are mandated under the Act charges the Executive to directly confront Covid-19, the named enemy and scapegoat. The presence of both the normative Constitutional order and an exception, following Carl Schmitt, creates an uneasy synthesis. It requires the Executive to claim authority. Yet, with the Act invoked in terms of Constitution and thereby the people remaining sovereign, Executive power remains stunted. This study of South Africa’s response to Covid-19 highlights the unresolved tensions present when Constitutional democracies declare emergencies. The Disaster sees South Africa enter a situation whereby it is confronted with unprecedented legal and political challenges. Its response conjures existential questions regarding its political development and legal structures.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843857
C. Tindale
Legal argumentation operates internally, in the construction of decisions, and externally, in the communication of those decisions. In this paper, I am interested in the external communication of legal decisions and the standards they assume. Treating “fine print” as a metonym that stands for much more than just contract disclosure, I explore what legal argumentation highlights and ways in which it marginalises features that a fully informed public should reasonably require for its own deliberations. In the course of this, I consider the nature of the “reasonable person” that the law addresses.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843863
R. Nethersole
A close reading of two interrelated Executive Orders issued by the Governor of the U.S. State of Virginia exposes modern Law’s twofold paradoxes. While the first stems from perennial judicial-political disjunctive opposition between responsibility for self-preservation and collective wellbeing, the second paradox comes into view with the rise, in eighteenth-century North America, of homo oeconomicus who, newly endowed with rights has the (additional) right not to obey government orders. The entanglement of the two, enfolded in decisive contradiction accompanying the formation of Virginia together with the U.S., defines the fault line in all emergency regulation designed to protect populations in a pandemic that threaten lives and livelihoods. Framed by theoretical borrowings from late Foucault (on governmentality) that encompasses various strategic techniques for making society function equitable, and from Balibar’s discussions on “the individualist tradition,” I argue with Menke’s Critique of Rights that the Virginia Emergency Orders expose the historical precariousness of the (neo)liberal subject of interest, reiterating what Schmitt saw as Hobbes’ central political concern, namely that without “the mutual relation between Protection and Obedience” anarchy would threaten the order forged by contract.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843862
M. Staub
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation from the See of Rome, announced on 11 February 2013, has been interpreted as an eschatological gesture, most famously by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. This article reconsiders the evidence of eschatological thinking in the work of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and revisits the declaration of resignation of 2013 considering the precedent set by Pope Celestine V’s abdication in 1294. It examines the ecclesiological context of this event and how this context is reflected in Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s work. It concludes that Benedict XVI’s resignation cannot be understood without acknowledging his own interpretation of Saint Bonaventure’s moderate eschatology, ecclesiology, and theology of history. While focusing on the Church, the article also investigates the political reflections of Celestine V’s abdication and its Bonaventurian background. Via Dante and the reception of his work in the twentieth-century German-speaking context, it finally turns to the ways in which Benedict XVI associated the world with his resignation.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843855
J. Barnard-Naudé
This article explores how law communicates socio-economic injustice under fundamentally different legal orders. It consists of a comparison of two appeal court judgment which are more than thirty years apart: Southern Insurance Association v Bailey (1984) and Komape v Minister of Basic Education (2020). Relying on the work of Johan van der Walt, the argument in relation to the Bailey case is that the judgment is characterised by a structural silence in relation to justice which, in turn, reflects a logic of unacknowledged sacrifice. This is a sacrifice of Aristotelian corrective justice at the altar of the exigencies of an apartheid political economy grounded in the exploitation of Black labour. The article then proceeds to an exposition of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal in the Komape case. It is argued that, for several reasons, the Komape decision can be understood as the rudiments of a precarious resistance of justice to the socioeconomics of the new legal order. The judgment is explicitly characterised by an acknowledgement of sacrifice. The article concludes with a brief reflection, in the postscript, on the spectre of the unsacrificeable that the Komape judgment inevitably also raises.
本文探讨法律如何在根本不同的法律秩序下传达社会经济不公正。它包括对相隔30多年的两个上诉法院判决的比较:南方保险协会诉贝利(1984年)和Komape诉基础教育部长(2020年)。根据Johan van der Walt的研究，与Bailey案有关的论点是，判决的特点是与正义有关的结构性沉默，这反过来反映了一种未被承认的牺牲逻辑。这是在以剥削黑人劳工为基础的种族隔离政治经济的紧急情况下，亚里士多德式的纠正性正义的牺牲。文章接着阐述了最近最高上诉法院对科马佩案的判决。有人认为，出于几个原因，科马佩案的判决可以被理解为正义对新法律秩序的社会经济学的不稳定抵抗的雏形。判决的明确特点是承认牺牲。文章最后在附言中对科马佩审判不可避免地引起的不可牺牲的幽灵作了简短的反思。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1844500
Sisanda Nkoala
This study explores how South African television news reports communicate on sentence proceedings criminal cases involving violent acts against children. These kinds of crimes tend to attract public interest, and the outcomes can be a litmus test on the community's views concerning the justice system. By using cluster criticism to consider the discursive and non-discursive components of selected news reports, the study considers how television news broadcasts use factual and evaluative language and visuals when communicating court outcomes. The paper argues that these broadcasters tend to use evaluative language and visuals, as opposed to factual terms. This tendency can prevent news media from playing the educative role envisaged in the principle of open justice because instead of emphasising the factual aspects of sentencing proceeding, these reports focus on the outcome and the emotive aspects of the cases that entertain rather than educate.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843851
S. Ivic
This paper explores how European gender equality law communicates in the contemporary democratic public sphere. It will analyse several gender discrimination cases of the European Court of Human Rights as well as the Court of Justice of the European Union and how judgements of these courts communicated and defined the concept of gender equality, and redefined and broadened this concept from early cases such as Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali v The United Kingdom to more recent cases such as Land Brandenburg v Ursula Sass and Leyla Sahin v Turkey. Trying to answer how the law communicates, this paper will show that the law is not a static and immutable system, independent of historical, political, social and cultural contexts. On the contrary, the legal system represents a dynamic structure, which is continuously revised, and which is socially, historically and politically constructed.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1843861
P. Salazar
Dylann S. Roof, white supremacist perpetrator of the Charleston massacre (2015) resolved to dismiss his lawyers and to represent himself. In the course of the proceedings he wrote extensively, keeping notes and diaries, and also writing directly to the Court, in addition to engaging in a dialogue with the judge. Using Bourdieu on the concept of “force of law” and Foucault on the concept of order of discourse, this essay proposes that Roof reclaimed his autonomy as a subject by developing a rhetorical strategy of communication, and thus affirmed his own voice within the “game” of judicial exchanges and positions of power. This essay serves also as a building block to understand white nationalist or supremacist discursivity.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2020.1794401
V. Kangaspunta
This article examines online news comments sections as both representing an example of and a subject concerning changing media structures, the changing relationship between users and media outlets, the way this relationship is influenced by the (changing) understanding of place and, especially, the way users participate in the new public arenas provided by geographically anchored online media sources. The focus is on Finnish online media in its golden era, the early 2010s. The analysis of user comments left in the comments sections of a small local newspaper, a regional newspaper and a national newspaper suggests that geography matters. Comments sections serve as public arenas for discussions of shared issues, specified through geography, and construct public spheres. Especially in the local context, the meaning of such public arenas should not be underestimated.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2020.1794417
Josep Àngel Guimerà Orts, M. Bonet
The economic crisis that began in 2008 has brought to the table the unstructured nature of the Spanish public broadcasting system. In Spain, the Public Service Media is organised into three almost watertight territorial levels that do not collaborate with each other, and even sometimes compete for the same resources. In addition, the different political elites (local, regional and national) see their media as their own, and those of the other administrations as opponents. This division, which we call a geographic-administrative fracture, has prevented a global management of the system, which has led to more consequences other than merely economic ones. This article provides a novel vision of the (permanent) crisis of the Spanish public media, highlighting a defining characteristic of the system, hardly ever considered as a key factor in its (bad) functioning: territorial division.
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