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79Ribiere, Mireille. Roland Barthes: A Beginner's Guide. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. Pp. 82Substance 33 (1): 152-155. 2004.
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13Coercion in Social Accounts of Law: Can Coerciveness Undermine Legality?Law and Philosophy 40 (5): 471-508. 2021.Many recent arguments about the role of coercive sanctions in law suggest that the importance of coercion is underrated. The question has thus been where the lower threshold for coercion might be within a legal system. Very little attention, by contrast, has been paid to whether, at some upper threshold, coerciveness might itself present a problem for law, even on a positivist account. In this article I therefore interrogate the standard positivist picture from this unorthodox direction: Is it t…Read more
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5Public Rights, Private RelationsOxford University Press. 2015.Many of the interests protected by public law are regularly violated by powerful private actors. Analysing the application of public law rights to the private sphere, this book develops a theoretical framework for the application of human and constitutional rights in relations between private parties.
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2Expanding our understanding of sovereign power: on the creation of zones of exception in forensic psychiatryNursing Philosophy 14 (3): 178-185. 2013.The purpose of this paper is to engage with the readers in a theoretical reflection on nursing practices in forensic psychiatric settings. In this paper, we argue that practices of exclusion in forensic psychiatric settings share some common ground with Agamben's description of sovereign power and, consequently, the possible creation of zones of exception in this environment. The concept of exception is, therefore, purposely used to shift our thinking, highlight the political forces surrounding …Read more
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