Index

Absolute:

God 179, 180; paternity 176–8;

as Reference 163, 168 accidental, the 23, 24

Accursius, Glossa Ordinaria 122

Adams v. Lindsell 119–1, 141 (n73) aesthetics of law 25, 150 affectivity:

antonomasia 118–20; Husserl 34;

and law 33; rhetoric 109

Alberti, Leon Battista 49

Albertus Magnus, Saint 38 Alciatus, A. 122, 124

Alcock v. Chief Constable of South Yorkshire 113

Alfred, King of England 80 allegoria, law of contract 119–6 alterity 22–4

Althusser, L. 10

American law 81–3, 83–5, 119–1 analogy, in law 88–89, 113 Antigone (Sophocles) 186–93, 195–8 Antigone, as character:

desire 207–10, 210–12; dike 194–6, 198–199; eros 206–8, 209–12, 219;

law of state/law of family 205; natural law 46, 190;

nomos 197–9;

and the Other 210–12 antirrhesis 109, 133–5, 137 (n19) antonomasia, law of torts 112–20 architecture, and memorial fantasms

39

Aristotle: accidental 23;

clouds and mirror 43; demonstration 46–47; hexis or pathos 35; literal/metaphorical 90; fantasms 33;

political theory 88 Artaud, A. 56 (n2) asylum application 129

Attia v. British Gas plc 112, 114–16, 117–19

Augustine 46

Austin, John 17

authors and origins, common law 80– 6

Bak (painter) 50, 51

Barthes, Roland 91 Being 211–22;

see also ontology Bentham, Jeremy 2, 67–68, 73 Bernasconi, R. 218

binding, affective 33–6, 34–8 Bingham, Lord Justice 116 Blackstone, W. 67–68 blood, as fantasm 36–38

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blood lineage 38, 198 Bourdieu, Pierre 175, 183 Bowie, M. 79, 181 Bracton, H. de 126, 127 Bramwell, Lord 125 bricolage 88–9, 184

British American Telegraph Co v. Colson 125

Bruce v. Rawlins 140 (n50) Brunelleschi, Filippo 45, 48, 62 (n76) Burke, E. 82, 83, 88

Camden, Lord 117 Carruthers, M.J. 76–8, 82–4 castration, symbolic 161 catastrophe 216

Chadwick v. British Transport Commission 139 (n35)

civic virtue 193 closure 12 clouds:

Aristotle 43; emulation of 50–6; Epicureanism 43;

and experience 43–48;

as figure of disfiguration 44; Lucretius 44

codification 77–79 Coke, Sir Edward 121 Coleman, J. 80

commodity form theory, and law 9– 10

common law 4, 101–3; ‘as if’ 91–3;

authors and origins 80–6; and Bentham 2; community members and strangers 127, 129; experience 26;

and hermeneutics 73–7; and metaphor 86;

in political terms 5; realism 95;

reason 2;

as repository 77;

as social science 67; textuality 71;

as tradition 71–4, 89–1; unconscious logic 26; ‘unsaid’ 88;

US 83–5; visibility 91–3, 94; and writing 76–8;

see also contract law common law texts 73–80 common lawyers:

law books 73–80, 99–1; in-service role 102; symbolic delivery 96–8

communication 120–2, 150, 162–4 cosanguinity 38

conscience, and good 201 contempt of court, and metonymy

125–34 Continental law:

codification 71; language of codes 100; radicalism

contingency iv–2;

and enclosure 101–3; justice of 23;

and law 15–16; legality iv, 24–6; nature 220;

and necessity 5–6; theory 13

contract law 10–11; and allegoria 119–6; history 121–3;

marriage contracts 123–6; Roman law 122–4

Corpus Iuris Civilis 149, 158 Cox, A. 80

Creon:

and Antigone, double perspective 190–2;

attitude 193–5; denial 208–12;

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erotic 44;

and evidence 46; history 35–42;

and imaginaire 173; and judgement 35; and law 33–7; legal 55;

memorial 39;

moral phenomena 53–7; not-yet objects 34; varieties 44

fate:

and institution 165–7; as the Other 221

Fates, the 35 father:

as agent 165, 166; law of 27;

see also paternity feminine, the 172–4 feminism 169

figures of sentence 108 figures of speech 107–9 Fish, S. 82

Fitzpatrick, P. 7, 8 foreigners 126–30 Fortescue, Sir John 126 Foster, H. 6

Foucault, Michel 20, 76, 89, 93 Founders’ Constitution 83–5 Frank, Sir Douglas 115–17 Fraunce, A. 5

freedom, and slavery 126–8 Freud, Sigmund:

the heard 64 (n115);

Nebenmensch 52; unconscious 56

future anterior tense 156–8

Gabel, P. 11 Gadamer, H.-G. 74, 88 Gardiner, Simon 120 Geertz, C. 72 genealogy:

Husserl 47;

and seduction 33, 56 (n2); as structure 169; structure/content 174–6; and symbolism 135;

and truth 162–6 generalized individuality 202 Geras, N. 20

God, as Absolute 179, 180 good, and conscience 201 Goodrich, P. 6, 12 Gordley, J. 122–4

Greek literature 188–93, 211–13 Grossfeld, B. 100

Hachamovitch, Y. 25–7

Hale, Sir Matthew 84, 92 Harding, T. 2

Hart, H.L. A. 17

Hegel, G. 157;

Antigone 186, 190; family 202–5; nomos and dike 199;

Phenomenology of Spirit 201; Philosophy of Right 200;

the private 195–7; subject/object split 200–4; thought 183

Heidegger, Martin:

Being 212;

interpretative shift 214–17; mythology 189;

nomos 216–18;

‘Ode on Man’ 211–15; ontology 216–18; originary ethics 211; thought 183

Hensor v. Fraser 140 (n60) Heraclitus 212 hermeneutics:

and common law 73–7; ontology 216; tradition 70;

see also interpretation

Holland, T.E. 76–9

Holwell Securities v. Hughes 140 (n60), 141 (n68)

home:

legal connotations 115, 116–18; psychoanalytical connotations 117–19

Home Secretary, contempt of court 131–4

Horace 46 Hotman, F. iv, 3–4

human relations, legal form 10 humanist legal reform 4 Hunt, A. 7

Husserl, Edmund: affectivity 34; belief in world 41; formal logic 42;

genealogy of logic 47; institution 64–7 (n116); object of understanding 39; perception 47;

pregiveness of judicative activity 51

I, and Other 27, 155 iconicity 33

identification 155, 158, 170–3 image:

Lacan 155–8;

Legendre 158;

and judgement 33, 39, 41–5; mirror image 155, 156;

and realism 95; visual 39

individualized particularity 202 inheritance, law of 38 institutions:

and birth process 151; creative force 47; critical legal studies 13; ethics 21–3;

fate 165–7;

Husserl 64–7 (n116);

INDEX 231

politics 7;

and social history 111–13 interpretation 26, 80, 133–5;

see also hermeneutics Irigaray, Luce 27;

nouvelle poetique 178–82; specular relations 173–5

irrealities, juridical 41–5

Jacoby, R. 8

Jaensch v. Coffey 113–15 Jardine, A. 153, 180

Johnson v. Grant 144 (n123) judge’s role 94

judgement:

and experience 33; images 33, 39, 41–5; Kant 55–9;

and fantasms 35; transcendental theory 54

juridical categories 41, 150–2 juridical reasoning 151, 152, 158–67 juridical space 38, 40 jurisprudence:

and justice 18–19; and morality 19; ontology 14–15; postmodernity 2–6;

and psychoanalysis 106, 107 justice:

criteria 22;

and jurisprudence 18–19; Marxism 19–1;

and moral neutralization 17; postmodern theory 22–4; see also dike

Kant, I.:

judgement 55–9; moral law 25; respect 53;

sensus communis/sensus privatus

52;

subject/object split 200;

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sublime, the 48; types 50, 52, 54; will 54–8

Kennedy, D. 6

kinship, and culture 158–60, 160 Kolve, V.A. 49

Kristeva, J. 33

Lacan, Jacques:

Antigone 186, 205; desire 154–6; feminine 172–4; identification 158; love 208;

mirror image 155–58; reality 155;

relational thought 183–5; relationships 182; repeating 55; shamanism 147;

subject 157; visibility 91, 93

Lacoue-Labarthe, P. 22

Lamy, Bernard 110–12 language:

arbitrariness 98–99;

and law 97–9, 99–1, 121–3, 149; Saussure 84–6;

subject-as- signifier 55; subjectivity 154–9; and thought 214–16; words as signs 107–9; writing 81–3, 99

law:

aesthetics 25, 150; as affect 33; antimony 15; class content 8–9;

as commodity form of production 9–10;

conceptualized 11; de-ethicalized 16; and desire 79–1, 184;

differences in development, by country 69;

divine and human 220–2; and ethics 5, 15–23; experience 41–5, 67–68, 88; as force 220;

form and content compared 10; as ideological state apparatus 10; and language 97–98, 99–1, 121–3; and narcissistic identifications 45; natural/positive 195;

paternity 27, 149, 149–4, 181; as pathos 33–7; phenomenology 42; politicization 5, 11–15;

positivized 6, 11, 18, 60–3 (n54); postmodern critics 148; recognition 52;

symbols 135; textuality 13–14;

as tradition 68, 70, 89–1; and type 50;

unconscious 107, 112, 126; and unsayable 149–50; and visibility 94;

see also common law; contract law;

nomos

legal education 7, 11, 12, 14–15 legal fiction 132, 133

legal politics, and gender 118, 126 legal reasoning 149

legal theory, formalization 65 legal tradition 3–4, 100;

see also tradition

legal violence, symbolization 134–6 legality:

and contingency 24–6; modernist 15–16, 17;

and morality, separated 17–18 Legendre, Pierre:

communication 150; desire 159–2, 184; identification 158;

image 158;

Leçons 148–50, 155; lineage 163, 164–7, 181–4; modernity 154;

narcissism 45; Oedipal family 169–1; paternity 167, 177–9; Reference 163–5, 179;

structure 165–7, 174–6; subjectivity 154–6

Leonardo da Vinci 43, 47 Lévi-Strauss, C. 86–8, 158–60 lex non scripta 76–9

lineage 181; Antigone 196;

and kinship 158, 160; Legendre 163, 164–7, 181–4; and Reason 164

Locke, John 77–79, 95 logos, and physis 212 love:

and death 221; Lacan 210; see also eros

Lucretius 36, 44

M. v. Home Office and Another 129–6 MacIntyre, A. 16

MacKinnon, Lord Justice 114

McLoughlin v. O’Brian 112 madness 52

Man:

as deinon 213;

as question 154–6; as self 147

marriage contracts 123–5 Marxism:

doctrine of critique 6–15; justice 19–1;

and law 8–9; morality 19

maternity, and paternity 169–2 medieval:

see Middle Ages

INDEX 233

metaphor 111;

and metonymy 92;

as operating system 85–90; and paternity 175–7

metonymy 115;

and contempt of court 125–34; and metaphor 92

Middle Ages:

mental images 38–2; penitence 38–1; religious drama 48–2; textuality 82–4;

writing and scholarship 76–8 mirror 43, 155, 156–8

moral object 53–7

moral phenomena, as fantasms 54–8 moral philosophy 18

moral responsibility 16–17 morality 16;

conventional 18;

and jurisprudence 19;

and legality, separated 17–18; Marxism 19;

postmodernist 20; and right 200, 201

Morrison v. Thoelke 140 (n61) motherhood 169, 171

Mount Isa Mines Ltd v. Pusey 139 (n35)

Murphy, W.T. 5 myth, function 168

Nancy, J.-L. 22 narcissism 45, 177 national law 3 natural law 46, 189

nature-culture divide 159 nemein 219

neutrality principle 174–6 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 188 nomos:

Antigone 197–9;

Creon 193, 197–9;

and dike 195, 199, 218, 219;

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and Divine law 191; Hegel 199; Heidegger 216–18

non-originalists 83

normative communication 162–4 normativity, model of 17, 18 nouvelle poïetique 178–82 Nusbaum, A. 119–1

Oakeshott, M. 68, 72 object, real/irreal 40–4 ‘Ode on Man’ 211–17 oneiric phantasms 44 ontology:

and ethics 216–18, 217–19; hermeneutical 216; jurisprudence 14–15;

‘Ode on Man’ 211–17 originary voices 42 Other:

Antigone 210–12; as Fate 221;

and I 27, 155; valorized 153–5; and Woman 173

Owens v. Liverpool Corporation 114, 118

painting 49, 50

paradise, machinery of 48–2 Parmeneides 212 Pashukanis, E. 9–10 paternity:

and Absolute 176–8; and agency 165, 166; of law 149, 149–4, 181; Legendre 167, 177–9; logic 153, 167–71;

and maternity 169–2; metaphor 175–7; Roman law 151;

and unconscious desire 160 pathological, history of 23–5, 25 pathos, and blood 36–38

patriarchy, and rationality 69 Peacham, H. 115

penitence 38–1 perception, schemes 175 perspective 51, 95–7, 175

Phallus 156, 157, 168, 171–3 philia 195, 196–8

physis 212, 218 Platonic world 212, 219 Pocock, J.G.A. 83, 84 poetry, as ethic 178–82 polis 192–4, 194–6, 209

politicization of law 5, 11–15 politics of reason 2

positivism of law 6, 11, 18, 60–3 (n54)

postal rule 119–1, 121–3, 126 postmodernism:

critics 148;

critique of reason 69; ethics 21–4;

and jurisprudence 2–6; justice 22–4;

laws of 23–8; morality 20

potestas ligandi 33–6 precedent doctrine 70 psychoanalysis:

as critique 181–5;

and jurisprudence 106, 107; postal rule 121;

and rhetoric 110–12; uses 147–55

Quintilian 38–2, 46

Rastall, Master Justice 128

Ratcliffe v. Burton 140 (n50) ratio scripta 152–4, 162 rationality:

and patriarchy 69; and tradition 90

Rawls, John 20

realism, common law 95

reality 41, 55–9, 155; see also réel

Reason:

Corpus Iuris Civilis 158; critique 69;

lineage 164; politics of 2; Roman law 152–4

recognition 54, 155–7 réel, Lacan 172–4;

see also reality Reference:

abstracted 169; juridical categories 41;

Legendre 149–1, 151, 163–5, 179; as lieu ideal suppose 179; unmoved mover 167

relationships 182

religious drama, medieval 48–2 representation 62 (n71);

and demonstration 48–2; juridical space 38; thematics 91;

and vagueness 51 repression 55 rhetoric 90;

of affectivity 109; analysis 106;

as emotive force 108–10; figures of speech 107–9; forensic 106, 107;

and psychoanalysis 110–12; and unconscious of law 112

rhetoric studies language 106, 107–9 Richards, D.A.J. 83–5

right, and morality 200, 201

Roe v. Wade 80 Roman law:

blood 38; contracts 122–4; evidence 162; freedom 127; Hotman 3–4; paternity 151;

INDEX 235

Reasons 152–4

Saussure, F. de 72, 84–6, 97–100, 182–4

Scarman, Lord 113 Schelling, F.W.J.von 67 Schlegel, J.H. 6

science, as normative authority 152 seduction, genealogy 33, 56 (n2) self-referentiality 6–7

Semayne’s Case 116 signs 96–102, 107–9 simile 92–4

Sittlichkeit 200–3

slavery, and freedom 126–8 Smith, A. 94, 96

social history, and institutions 111–13 social montage 33, 34

Socrates, Crito 193

Sophocles, Antigone 186–93, 195– 199

sound 64 (n115) Sperber, D. 86–8 Spinoza, Baruch 24, 43 state, and family 201–5 Steiner, G. 189

Stoics 36, 46, 57 (n10) Strachey, L. 91

Strangers, An Act Concerning 127 structural equality 173–6 structuralism 9–11, 182–4 subject-as-signifier 157 subjectification:

masculine model 178–80; Phallus 171–3;

and subjectivity 150–2 subjectivity:

Legendre 154–6;

and moral object 53–7; science 152;

and social 79;

and subjectification 150–2 Sugarman, D. 8

Swinburne, Henry 123, 124

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symbolic permutations 170–3 symbolique and desire 156 symbolism, castration 161 symbols of law 135

techne 215, 218, 219 textuality of law 13–14, 71 theological fantasms 44 Thompson, E.P. 19 thought:

and Being 219; Hegel 183; language 214–16; relational 183–5

Tocqueville, A. de 100 topothesia 128–30

torts, and antonomasia 112–20 totalitarianism 22

Touching such as be born beyond the Seas, An Act 126

Town Investments Ltd and Others v. Dept of Environment 145 (n120)

tradition:

and common law 68, 70, 89–1; common law/civilian 70; etymology 70;

experience 26, 67–68; and hermeneutics 70; and rationality 90; Saussure 97–99

traditionality 70

truth, juridical reason 164 Tully (Cicero) 38, 40 Tushnet, M. 8, 12

Tuvil, Daniel 109–11 types 50, 52, 54

unconscious: Deleuze 57 (n11);

of law 107, 112, 126 unconscious desire 151–3, 159–2 Unde? 162, 164–6, 167, 181 Unger, R. 11

US, mailbox rule 119–1

US Constitution 81–3, 83–5

vagueness, and representation 51 Vasari, Giorgio 48

virtual objects 41, 60 (n48) visibilities 91–7 visualizations 38–2

Watts and another v. Morrow 116 Weber, Samuel 68–1, 100, 156 Weinreb, L. 189

West, W.Symbolaeography 121 Wilberforce, Lord 112–14

Wilkes v. The Earl of Halifax 144 (n20)

Williams, P. 13 Wiseman, Sir Robert 2, 5

Woman, and the Other 173 Wood, Thomas 116 words, as signs 107–9 writing, and language 99 writing down, fear of 81–3

zero function 168, 176, 177, 179 Zizek, S. 208, 211