Law and Nature [Hardcover]

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and legal thought and practice.This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law and constitutional law). Topics include forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments and bestiality, and he demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of 'nature' entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human.This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law and constitutional law). Topics include forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments and bestiality, and he demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of 'nature' entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human.Exploring the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice, this study focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk --as expressed in extra-legal disputes as well as different forms of legal discourse. Topics include the forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments and bestiality. David Delaney demonstrates throughout that nearly any analysis of nature entails an interpretation of the essence of humanity. Acknowledgements; Part I. Situating Nature: 1. Introduction: the pragmatics of nature and the situation of law; 2. The nature of modern political discourse: doing things lsª