Latour and the Passage of Law
Edited by Kyle McGee
This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.
Bruno Latour’s writings in science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and philosophy are well-known, but only rarely has his work in law been appreciated as a core element, and still less as a passage point for students and scholars of law. This collection demonstrates the urgency with which both of those omissions must be reconsidered.
ContributorsBruno Latour, Cédric Moreau de Bellaing, David S. Caudill, David Saunders, Faith E. Barter, François Cooren, Graham Harman, Kyle McGee, Laurent de Sutter, Mariana Valverde, Niels van Dijk, Serge Gutwirth
1. IntroductionKyle McGee
2. From the Conseil D'Etat to Gaia: Bruno Latour on Law, Surfaces and DepthDavid Saunders
3. Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of ExistenceGraham Harman
4. On Devices and Logics of Legal Sense: Towards Socio-Technical Legal AnalysisKyle McGee
5. 'The Crown Wears Many Hats': Canadian Aboriginal Law and the Black-boxing of EmpireMariana Valverde & Adriel Weaver
6. Providing the Missing Link: Law After Latour's PassageSerge Gutwirth
7. The Life and Deaths of a Dispute: An Inquiry into Matters of LawNiels van Dijk
8. Plasma! Notes on Bruno Latour's Metaphysics of LawLaurent de Sutter
9. The Conditions of a Good Judgement: From Law to Internal Affairs Police InvestigationsCedric Moreau de Bellaing (trans. Solene Semichon)
10. In the Name of the Law: Ventriloquism and Judicial MattersFrancois Cooren
11. Laboratory Life and the Economics of Science in LawDavid Caudill
12. Bartleby, Barbarians and the Legality of LiteratureFaith Barter
13. The Strange Entanglement of JurimorphsBruno Latour
Bruno Latour's map of law's topology pays equal attention to charting its brute self-referencing and surveying its astonishing capacity to propagate all other modes of existence. The essays in this collection deftly unfold his map and help orient it toward new institutions for the Anthropocene.
