2016 Reading Group
Semester 1
Wednesday 2March2016
Desmond Manderson
Apocryphal Jurisprudence, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 3 (2001) 26, 27-59.
Room 223, Level 2
Wednesday 16March2016
Martti Koskeniemmi
From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 562-617.
Room 609, Level 6
Wednesday 6April2016
David Kennedy
World of Struggle: How Power, Law and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016), 3-20.
Room 223, Level 2
Wednesday 20April2016
Sheila Jasanoff
‘The Idiom of Co-Production’ in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.) States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 1-12.
Room 609, Level 6
Wednesday 4May2016
Anne Orford
‘Food Security, Free Trade, and the Battle for the State’ (2015) Journal of International Law and International Relations, 1-67.
Room 920, Level 9
Wednesday 18May2016
Upendra Baxi
‘Enculturing Law? Some Unphilosophic Remarks’ in Mathew John and Sitharamam Kakarala (eds.) Enculturing Law: New Agendas for Legal Pedagogy (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2007), 2-21.
Room 920, Level 9
Semester 2
Wednesday 10August2016
T. O. Elias and Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Africa and the Development of International Law (2nd ed, 1988), 34-45.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann, 1986), 4-9.
Alumni Lounge, Level 10
Wednesday 17August2016
Robert Cover
‘Violence and the Word’, Yale Law Journal 95 (1986) 1601.
Alumni Lounge, Level 10
Wednesday 31August2016
Peter Fitzpatrick
‘Reading Slowly: The Law of Literature and the Literature of Law’ in Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha and Sundhya Pahuja (eds), Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (2012) 193-210.
Alumni Lounge, Level 10
Wednesday 14September2016
Judith Grbich
‘Language as the “Pretty Woman” of Law: Properties of Longing and Desire in Legal Interpretation and Popular Culture’ M Thornton ed. Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism (2002), Chapter 7.
Alumni Lounge, Level 10
Wednesday 12October2016
Wednesday 2November2016