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This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg.
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L AW A N D N AT U R E
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extralegal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law, and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific politicallegal disputes and arguments. The set consists of a series of contexts and cases organized around a conventional distinction between “external” and “internal” nature: forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biological defenses in criminal cases, and involuntary medication of inmates. He demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of “nature” entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human. is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. His publications include Race, Place and the Law (1998) and The Legal Geographies Reader (co-editor, with Nicholas Blomley and Richard Ford, 2001). He has also written many articles exploring the intersection of legal and geographical scholarship.
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C A M B R I D G E S T U D I E S I N L AW A N D S O C I E T Y
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society aims to publish the best scholarly work on legal discourse and practice in its social and institutional contexts, combining theoretical insights and empi