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“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether Jun 2008

“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

This Article, a contribution to the Cardozo Law Review symposium in honor of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event, uses Badiou’s theorizing of the event and of the militant in Being and Event as a basis for an exploration of problems of judicial ontology and constitutional hermeneutics raised in recent decisions by common law courts dealing with the legislative and executive confinement of “Islamic” asylum seekers, “enemy combatants” and “terrorism suspects,” and certain classes of criminal offenders in spaces beyond the doctrines, paradigms and institutions of the criminal law. The Article proposes an ontology and a poetics of judging equal to …


Tribal Customary Law In Jordan, Ann Furr, Muwafaq Al-Serhan Jan 2008

Tribal Customary Law In Jordan, Ann Furr, Muwafaq Al-Serhan

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

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A ‘Call To Arms:’ A Gender Sensitive Approach To The Plight Of Female Child Soldiers In International Law, Priya Pillai Jan 2008

A ‘Call To Arms:’ A Gender Sensitive Approach To The Plight Of Female Child Soldiers In International Law, Priya Pillai

Human Rights Brief

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