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Open AccessWhy Metaphysics Matters: The Case of Property Law
Are property rights absolute? This paper attempts to reframe this question by drawing on insights from the field of social ontology. My main claim is that, even if we accept the most extreme view of the absolu...
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Social Epistemology
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Why Inconclusiveness is a Problem for Public Reason
Most theorists of public reason, including both its proponents and critics, now accept that it is inconclusive, meaning that its correct application can result in a plurality of reasonable solutions to the iss...
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Judicial Greatness and the Duties of a Judge
This paper addresses the phenomenon of judicial greatness by develo** a general concept of greatness and applying it to law. Under the view offered in the paper, greatness (in general, and also in law) is co...
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(Re)Imagining Law: Marginalised Bodies/Indigenous Spaces
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Refugees, Limbo and the Australian Media
It seems that more often than not, refugees and asylum seekers are associated with the notion of ‘limbo’. This terminology is used to illustrate situations in which people are unable to access systems that wou...
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The Gravity of Steering, the Grace of Gliding and the Primordiality of Presencing Place: Reflections on Truthfulness, Worlding, Seeing, Saying and Showing in Practical Reasoning and Law
This article reflects on the received view of the rupture which constitutes the beginning of a critical, ethical, political and legal opening, the understanding of which inhabits the cry of, and response to, i...
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Foucault, Rights and Freedom
As dominant liberal conceptions of the relationship between rights and freedom maintain, freedom is a property of the individual human subject and rights are a mechanism for protecting that freedom—whether it ...
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Civilising the Exception: Universally Defining Terrorism
The first part of this chapter assesses whether there is now an accepted definition of terrorism in general international law, in the wake of a decision by the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2011, which de...
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Worlding Rootedness
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Troubled Waters: The Unifying Influence of Conservation and Public Health on the Access Provisions of the Marine and Coastal Access Act
The Marine and Coastal Access Act, amongst its other aims, is intended to ‘build on existing access legislation to create a route around the coast of England’ (Foreword to the Draft Marine Bill, HMSO 2008). As...
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Neutrality Without Autonomy
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Corporate federations: A contemporary answer to changed global economic dynamics