Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

<p>This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law reconceptualising it in a material embodied socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline.</p><p></p><p>The book contains five sections:</p><p></p><p>• Spatiotemporal</p><p></p><p>• Sense</p><p></p><p>• Body</p><p></p><p>• Text</p><p></p><p>• Matter</p><p></p><p>Through this structure the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality temporality materiality corporeality and sensorial studies capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory and anticipating future research in the area.</p><p></p><p>The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence sociology of law critical legal studies socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity.</p><p></p><p>Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138956469_oachapter21.pdf</p><p></p>