Description
Book SynopsisJonathan Goldberg-Hiller explores the limits of modern legal theory in regards to the night and the possibility for both violence and freedom that might be otherwise unavailable during the day.
Trade Review“Bringing a highly sophisticated theoretical mind to a richly woven thick description of legal practices, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller asks how our conceptions of law would change if we thought about it from a metaphor of darkness. Throughout this fascinating and thought-provoking book, he attends to how public imaginaries of darkness are affected by race and gender and how the law of the dark has an ambiguous relation to human freedom and security. As he demonstrates, the law is obscure, complex, and lacks transparency—this is the law’s own essential darkness.” -- Linda Ross Meyer, author of * Sentencing in Time *
“In this highly original and intellectually creative book Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller recognizes that night is a real part of our temporal and material worlds as well as a metaphor for absence—the time and place where normal law is in abeyance. It is this confluence of the literal, conceptual, and metaphorical that makes
Law by Night distinct. Goldberg-Hiller’s juxtaposition of a variety of legal issues never previously brought together under the theme of night is nothing short of brilliant.” -- Cressida J. Heyes, author of * Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Interruptions 1
1. Is There a Right to Sleep? 29
2. It Came Upon You in the Night 56
3. Curfew, Legality, and the Social Control of the Night 98
4. Take Back the Night 134
5. Translation in the the Dark 174
Notes 199
Bibliography 263
Index 319
