Prelims

Interrupting the Legal Person

ISBN: 978-1-80262-868-5, eISBN: 978-1-80262-867-8

ISSN: 1059-4337

Publication date: 28 March 2022

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(2022), "Prelims", Sarat, A., Pavlich, G. and Mailey, R. (Ed.) Interrupting the Legal Person (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 87B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-ix. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-43372022000087B008

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INTERRUPTING THE LEGAL PERSON

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STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY

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STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, VOLUME 87, PART B

INTERRUPTING THE LEGAL PERSON

EDITED BY

AUSTIN SARAT

Amherst College, USA

GUEST EDITED BY

GEORGE PAVLICH and RICHARD MAILEY

University of Alberta, Canada

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Contents

List of Contributors vii
Editorial Board ix
Chapter 1: My Story, Whose Memory: Notes on the Autonomy and Heteronomy of Law
Stewart Motha 1
Chapter 2: The Ship, the Slave, the Legal Person
Renisa Mawani 19
Chapter 3: Working for the Man in the 21st Century: Algorithms, Employment Regulation, and the Market
Keally McBride 43
Chapter 4: Revelation and Legal Personhood
Linda Ross Meyer 59
Chapter 5: Sovereign Images and Contested Jurisdictions: Legal Personhood in British Columbia Colonial Law and through the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Matthew P. Unger 73
Chapter 6: Trial Personae and the Opacity of the Past
Martha M. Umphrey 87
Chapter 7: Interrupting the Legal Person: On Techniques and Grammars of Law?
Mark Antaki and Alexandra Popovici 101

List of Contributors

Mark Antaki McGill University, Canada
Keally McBride University of San Francisco, USA
Renisa Mawani University of British Columbia, Canada
Linda Ross Meyer Quinnipiac University, USA
Stewart Motha University of London, UK
Alexandra Popovici Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Martha M. Umphrey Amherst College, USA
Matthew P. Unger Concordia University, Canada

Editorial Board

Gad Barzilai Tel Aviv University Isreal
Paul Berman George Washington University USA
Roger Cotterrell University of London UK
Jennifer Culbert Johns Hopkins University USA
Eve Darian-Smith University of California, Santa Barbara USA
David Delaney Amherst College USA
Florence Dore University of North Carolina USA
David Engel State University of New York at Buffalo USA
Anthony Farley Albany Law School USA
David Garland New York University USA
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller University of Hawaii USA
Laura Gomez University of California, Los Angeles USA
Piyel Haldar Birkbeck College University of London UK
Thomas Hilbink Open Society Institute USA
Desmond Manderson Australian National University Australia
Jennifer Mnookin U.C.L.A. USA
Laura Beth Nielsen American Bar Foundation USA
Paul Passavant Hobart and William Smith College USA
Susan Schmeiser University of Connecticut USA
Jonathan Simon University of California, Berkeley USA
Marianna Valverde University of Toronto Canada
Alison Young University of Melbourne Australia