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Recent Developments Ashley Pearson1 Accepted: 22 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Michael Lobban and Ian Williams (eds). 2020. Networks and Connections in Legal History. Cambridge University Press. 352 Pages. ISBN: 9781108490887. Networks and Connections in Legal History demonstrates how networks and connections between individuals, communities, and places have shaped law, legal practice, and jurisprudence. By tracing (and analyzing) the behavior of courts, litigants, judges, academics, and lawyers, this collection maps the migration of legal ideas from one place to another and their subsequent effect on the burgeoning legal system at that point in history. Examining both professional and extra-curial connections, this book considers how the careers of individuals or interpretive communities do not only transmit ideas to new places and people, but how, once transmitted, ideas flourish in these new networks to generate original ideas, and new legal life.
Tanzil Chowdhury. 2020. Time, Temporality and Legal Judgement. Routledge. 172 Pages. ISBN: 9781138324503. Taking a unique approach to legal adjudication, this book uses the lens of time and temporality to decode judicial fact construction. Drawing on Bergsonian and Gadamerian theories of time, the book identifies the legal subjectivity engendered within temporality and seeks to demystify, or de-naturalise, time as a factor that influences judicial fact finding. In his analysis, Chowdhury contextualises the role of the court as a historian that seeks to reconstruct the past from lived human accounts and accumulated evidence. In exploring forms of adjudicative temporality, the book uses examples of judicial fact finding within court judgements as a way to reveal how legal actors construct the temporal dimension of law.
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Bert van Roermund. 2020. Law in the First Person Plural: Roots, Concepts, Topics. Edward Elgar Publishing. 304 Pages. ISBN: 9781788976442. Inspired by Rousseau’s politico-legal philosophy, this book interrogates the significance of plural agency and questions what the first-person plural (‘we, ourselves’) uncovers in the context of political discourse. Focused on concepts of the people, sovereignty, power and democracy, this innovative text indexes usages of the firstperson plural to discover how the term is used, claimed and adapted, and how these movements influence the narrated legitimacy of law and democracy. Part I considers an in-depth discussion of Rousseau while Part II moves through tangential concepts of democracy and the rule of law to extend these foundational propositions. Part III adapts Rousseau’s concepts anew to modern problems, such as the definition of an embryo or the human rights of migrants, accounts of which all crucially hinge on what a democracy under the rule of law amounts to.
Pablo Kalmanovitz. 2020. The Laws of War in International Thought. Oxford Un
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