Dissertation
Forms of Law: The Adaptive Affordances of the Cultural Legal
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00100
Abstract
This dissertation furthers cultural legal studies by deploying formal adaptation analysis as a cultural legal method. In doing so, it engages critically with form and its stake in our modern legality. It takes seriously Peter Goodrich’s argument that ‘[e]ach new medium underpins a new world and a changed form of law’1 by examining the way in which forms of law and justice are transformed by their representation across different mediums. To perform such a study is to embrace Caroline Levine’s ‘strategic formalism’ and to further the affective work of cultural legal scholars, whose scholarship has focused upon how modes of cultural representation and their mediation impact understandings of law. This dissertation demonstrates the significance of formal adaptation analysis for cultural legal studies by considering two legal paradigms as presented in adapted multi-texts: stasis (civil war) and dispositif (apparatus).
Details
- Title
- Forms of Law: The Adaptive Affordances of the Cultural Legal
- Authors
- Dale Mitchell
- Contributors
- Timothy Peters (Principal Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyJay Sanderson (Co-Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00100
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99584908902621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
Metrics
28 File views/ downloads
163 Record Views