Publication Date

2019

Journal

Law in Context: A Socio-Legal Journal

Abstract

The jurisliterary profession is the curious enterprise of writing, as a jurist, about law. Many seek to escape into literature, philosophy, critique, psychoanalysis, the couch, but then, in the main, they have abandoned law. Those that persist, who remain jurists, have the propensity to transgress the boundaries of the juridical, the strictures of abstraction and disembodiment, so as to generate accounts of legal sensibility, so as to manifest the polyglottal and visceral potential of transforming the juridical bubble into that most ethical of realms, the poetics of desire. Jurisliterary transgression, at its strongest, returns the materiality of imagination to the sensorium of legality.

Volume

36

Issue

2

First Page

10

Last Page

16

Publisher

La Trobe University Law School

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26826/law-in-context.v36i2.111

Keywords

jurisliterature, transgression, community of intellect, Twitter, Shakespeare, Bowdler

Disciplines

Law | Law and Gender | Psychiatry and Psychology

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