The Public in Law : Representations of the Political in Legal Discourse - Gregor Clunie

The Public in Law

Representations of the Political in Legal Discourse

By: Gregor Clunie, Haris Psarras, Claudio Michelon (Editor)

Hardcover | 28 December 2011

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This volume investigates the metabolism between law and society, specifically how the notion of "the public" is operationalised in multifarious legal contexts as a key mechanism in the legitimation of political and economic power. The work provides a synoptic overview of the instantiations of "the public" which appear in a number of legal spheres and attempts to ascertain whether the notion can have coherent or congruent meanings across these heterogeneous domains. A key question which frames the contributions is whether "the public" operates as a bona fide interface between law and society, allowing the interests and opinions of the population at large to be represented and reflected in legal discourse, such that collectively-generated imperatives may be imposed upon political and economic actors. The collection brings together a group of scholars from diverse backgrounds to interrogate the operation of "the public" in a range of different legal (as well as illegal and arguably alegal) spaces. Such a composition is reflective of the understanding that the role of "the public" in relation to law is not exhausted by the conventionally demarcated field of "public law", nor are public lawyers the only commentators with an interest in this relationship.

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