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Historicism and materiality in legal theoryIn Maksymilian Del Mar & Michael Lobban (eds.), Law in theory and history: new essays on a neglected dialogue, Hart Publishing. 2016.
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Of origin : toward a history of contemporary legal thoughtIn Justin Desautels-Stein & Christopher Tomlins (eds.), Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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The work of death : massacre and retribution in Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831In Joshua Nichols (ed.), Legal violence and the limits of the law, Routledge. 2017.
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Contemporary legal thought as..In Justin Desautels-Stein & Christopher Tomlins (eds.), Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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Searching for contemporary legal thought : history, image, and structureIn Justin Desautels-Stein & Christopher Tomlins (eds.), Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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12Transplants and Timing: Passages in the Creation of an Anglo-American Law of SlaveryTheoretical Inquiries in Law 10 (2): 389-421. 2009.This Article applies the concept of "legal transplant" to the slavery regimes that sprang up in all regions of settlement during the first two centuries of English colonization of mainland America. Using a distinction between "extrastructure" and "intrastructure," we can divide the Anglo-American law of slavery into discourses of explanation/justification and technologies of implementation. The two components were produced from distinct sources. English law possessed few intellectual resources t…Read more
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18Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars - including Louis Assier-Andrieu, Marianne Constable, Yves Dezalay, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Bryant G. Garth, Peter Goodrich, Duncan Kennedy, Martti Koskenniemi, Shaun McVeigh, Samuel Moyn, Annelise Riles, Charles F. Sabel and William H. Simon…Read more
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10In a Wilderness of Tigers: Violence, the Discourse of English Colonizing, and the Refusals of American HistoryTheoretical Inquiries in Law 4 (2). 2003.This essay addresses the first century of English colonization of the North American mainland. Rather than narrate a familiar story of events--migration, settlement, the creation of viable Anglophone cultures amid hardship and danger--it pursues a less familiar track by examining the terms upon which English adventurers and their contemporaries understood the world they inhabited, the process of transatlantic expansion upon which they were engaged, and, in particular, the justifications they esp…Read more
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Areas of Interest
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