Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction
Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, 1
Places
1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893
Rebecca M. McLennan, 15
2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law
Samera Esmeir, 37
3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia
Daniel Fisher, 62
4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country
Beth H. Piatote, 85
Membership
5. Signs of Law
Leti Volpp, 103
6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding
Sarah Song, 131
7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality
Saba Mahmood, 145
Religion
8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Wendy Brown, 169
9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus
Daniel Boyarin, 189
10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany
Sara Ludin, 201
11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner
Christopher Tomlins, 225
Performance
12. A Vigil at the End of the World
Kathryn Abrams, 247
13. Invention and Process in Bilski
Marianne Constable, 258
14. “Erudite Curiosity”: The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958
Ramona Naddaff, 273
15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud
Bryan Wagner, 287
List of Contributors, 299
Index, 303
