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38Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary ItalyFeminist Legal Studies 14 (3): 329-352. 2006.This article examines how the recently introduced law on assisted reproduction in Italy, which gives symbolic legal recognition to the embryo, came about, and how a referendum, which would have repealed large sections of it, failed. The occupation of the legal space by the embryo is the outcome of a crusade by a well-organised alliance of theo-conservatives. These groups see in reproductive medicine an uncontrolled interference with their notion of the natural order of things. Such a worldview r…Read more
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26After cosmopolitanism (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, a Glasshouse book. 2012.The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transformations which are both necessary and possible.
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12Deleuze and law: forensic futures (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2009.This collection shows how Deleuze's ideas have influenced current thinking in legal philosophy. In particular, it explores the relations between law and life, addressing topics that are contested and controversial -- war, the right to life, genetic science, and security.
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10A cosmopolitics of singularities: rights and the thinking of other worldsIn Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin & Bolette Blaagaard (eds.), After cosmopolitanism, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, a Glasshouse Book. pp. 40. 2012.
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9Refusing disembodiment: Abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary ItalyFeminist Theory 10 (2): 227-244. 2009.Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal identity. This article explores the impact of the Act…Read more
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9Constituting Identity: Political Identity Formation and the Constitution in Post-independence IrelandDartmouth Publishing Company. 2001.Provides an in-depth analysis of the constitutional representation of Ireland and its citizens. In a society built on contradictions, it is appropriate that the so-called foundational document of the polity is itself a complex of conflicting positions. The Irish Constitution can, in this sense, be read in a manner similar to the texts of literary modernism, as a repository of irreconcilable ideas, which together make up the text.
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3Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish ConstitutionLaw and Critique 12 (1): 53-73. 2001.This article examines the ``hidden'' ideological appeal which the 1937 Irish Constitution attempted to make by the invocation of the rural ideal, a hybrid of Irish nationalism, Catholicism and, most importantly, Gaelic romanticism. In this move, the historical legitimacy of the new state could be defined through the constitution by an appropriation of diverse symbols from an imagined past, a golden age of Gaelic unity and moral certainties. Particular attention will be paid to the image of woman…Read more
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2Rights of passage : law and the biopolitics of dyingIn Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook & Patrick Hanafin (eds.), Deleuze and law: forensic futures, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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Cultures of Life: Embryo Protection and the Pluralist StateIn Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Bioethics: Current Legal Issues Volume 11, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Becoming normative : law, life and the possibility of an affirmative biopoliticsIn Inna Viriasova (ed.), Roberto Esposito: biopolitics and philosophy, Suny. pp. 241-257. 2018.
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Cultures of life : embryo protection and the pluralist stateIn Michael D. A. Freeman (ed.), Law and Bioethics / Edited by Michael Freeman, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Introduction: Deleuze and law : forensic futuresIn Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook & Patrick Hanafin (eds.), Deleuze and law: forensic futures, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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All that remains: Refusal's 'no'In Karin Van Marle (ed.), Refusal, Transition and Post-Apartheid Law, Sun Press. 2009.