2019 Reading Group
Our theme this semester is Models of Interdisciplinarity in Law and the Humanities. All students, faculty and visitors are welcome to join. Readings will be posted below in advance.
'Ramblas No 2' by Oswaldo Guayasamin (1989)
Semester 2, 2019
Models of Interdisciplinarity in Law and the Humanities
This semester’s reading group considers texts that exemplify a scholarly practice of approaching law from different humanities disciplines. In examining these models, the reading group continues to address the question of what is distinctive, and critical, about studying law from within the humanities, while continuing to question the category of “the humanities”.
Wednesday
31 July 2019Law Unlimited
Margaret Davies, “Preface”, “Chapter 1” and “Chapter 2”, Law Unlimited: Materialism, Pluralism, and Legal Theory (Routledge, 2016): 1-40 [40pp]
also recommended: Margaret Davies, “Chapter 5”, Law Unlimited:Materialism, Pluralism, and Legal Theory (Routledge, 2016): 74-89 [15pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
14 August 2019Law / Literature
Joseph Slaughter, “Pathetic Fallacies: Personification and the Unruly Subjects of International Law”, London Review of International Law, vol 7, no 1 (2019): 3-54 [50pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
28 August 2019Law / Accounting
David Chioni Moore, “Accounting on Trial: The Critical Legal Studies Movement and its Lessons for Radical Accounting”, Accounting, Organizations & Society, vol 16, no 8 (1991): 763-791 [28pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
11 September 2019Law / Visual Art
Desmond Manderson, “Chapter 6”, Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts (CUP, 2019): 157-194 [30pp]
also recommended: Desmond Manderson, “Foreword”, Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts (CUP, 2019): 1-19 [15pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
25 September 2019Law / Science / Technology
Eyal Weizman, “Preface” and “Introduction”, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (Zone Books, 2017): 9-47 [30pp]
Eyal Weizman, “Open Verification”: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248062/open-verification/
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
9 October 2019Law / Legends
Christine Black, “Part I”, “Part II” and “Part V”, A Mosaic of Indigenous Legal Thought: Legendary Tales and Other Writings (Routledge, 2017): 3-54 and 175-178 [50pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
23 October 2019Law / Music
Christopher Michael Brown, “‘Every Tone Was a Testimony’: Black Music, Literature and Law”, Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol 12, no 1 (2016): 39-48 [9pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
6 November 2019Law / History
Natasha Wheatley, “Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: On New Ways of Not Being a State”, Law and History Review, vol 35, no 3 (2017): 753-787 [34pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
20 November 2019Law / Performance
Catherine M Cole, "Statements Before and After Arrests: Performing at Law's Edge in Apartheid South Africa", in Austin Sarat et al (eds), Law and Performance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018): 122-155 [30pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Semester 1, 2019
Histories of Interdisciplinarity in Law and the Humanities
This semester’s reading group examines different histories of interdisciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences, written from different positions in the Global South and North. In reading these histories, the reading group aims to address the question of what is distinctive, and critical, about studying law from within “the humanities”.
Wednesday
06 March 2019Law and the Social Sciences into the 20th Century (in the USA)
Christopher Tomlins, “Framing the Field of Law’s Interdisciplinary Encounters: A Historical Narrative”, Law and Society Review, vol 34, no 4 (2000): 911-967 [56pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Tuesday
19 March 2019Law and the Humanities into the 21st Century (mostly in the USA)
Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson and Cathrine O Frank, “Introduction: On the Origins and Prospects of the Humanistic Study of Law”, in Sarat, Anderson and Frank (eds), Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (CUP, 2010): 1-18 [18pp]
Catherine L Fisk and Robert W Gordon, “Foreword: ‘Law As...’ Theory and Method in Legal History”, UC Irvine Law Review, vol 1, no 3 (2011): 519-527 [8pp]
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, “Introduction: The And of Law and Theory”, Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory (Routledge, 2018): 1-6 [6pp]
Room 722, Level 7
Wednesday
03 April 2019The End of Interdisciplinarity? (still in the USA)
Julie Stone Peters, “Law, Literature, and the Vanishing Real: On the Future of an Interdisciplinary Illusion”, PMLA, vol 120, no 2 (2005): 442-451 [10pp]
Bernadette Meyler, “Law, Literature, and History: The Love Triangle”, UC Irvine Law Review, vol 5 (2015): 365-390 [26pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
17 April 2019Opening up the Histories (from the USA to the UK and Germany)
Greta Olson, “De-Americanizing Law and Literature Narratives: Opening Up the Story”, Law and Literature, vol 22,
no 2 (2010): 338-364 [24pp]Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
01 May 2019Research Notes with Vanessa Ogle
In this session, Vanessa Ogle (author of The Global Transformation of Time) will speak informally about her research methods
and practices, including the archival work for her latest project on ‘archipelago capitalism’.Vanessa Ogle, “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1970s,” American Historical Review 122, no. 5 (December 2017): 1431-1458.
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
15 May 2019Decolonial Law and Literature (in Colonial Peru)
Rolena Adorno, “Introduction” and “Chronicles of Conquest”, in Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (University of Texas Press, 1986): 1-35 [35pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
29 May 2019Anticolonial Law and Literature (in the Black Atlantic)
Anne W Gulick, “Introduction” and “Declaring Negritude: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Aimé Césaire’s Cahier”, in Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic (Ohio State University Press, 2016): 1-12 and 77-120 [55pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Working through the Field (Internationally)
Peter D Rush and Maria Elander, “Working through the Cinematography of International Criminal Justice: Procedures of Law and Images of Atrocity”, London Review of International Law, vol 6, no 1 (2018): 17-43 [26pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
26 June 2019A Humanities of Resistance (in the Global North?)
Costas Douzinas, “A Humanities of Resistance: Fragments for a Legal History of Humanity”, in Sarat et al (eds), Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (CUP, 2010): 49-72 [23pp]
Room 831, Level 8
Participating in the IILAH Reading Groups
If you would like to introduce a reading to the group, please contact IILAH Director, Professor Sundhya Pahuja at s.pahuja@unimelb.edu.au. If you would like to come, please RSVP to connor.foley@unimelb.edu.au.