A Jurisprudence of Movement Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place [Hardcover]

Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this oversight, and it does so through an attention to the materialities of legal movement. Paying attention to how law moves across different colonial and contemporary spaces, this book reveals there is a problem with common laws place.

Primarily set in the postcolonial context of Australia  although ranging beyond this nationalised topography, both spatially and temporally  this book argues movement is fundamental to the very terms of common laws existence. How, then, might we move well? Explored through examples of walking and burial, this book responds to the challenge of how to live with a contemporary form of colonial legal inheritance by arguing we must take seriously the challenge of living with law, and think more carefully about its spatial productions, and place-making activities. Unsettling place, this book returns the question of movement to jurisprudence.

To the reader Introduction Part I Moving jurisprudence 1.The responsible jurist 2. The importance of movement Part II Performing jurisprudence3. Walking with empire 4. Jurisdiction of the dead Part III. Returning jurisprudence5. Return Conclusion