Critical Beings
Subtitle: Law, Nation, and the Global Subject (Law, Justice and Power)
Contributors: Peter Fitzpatrick (Editor); Patricia Tuitt (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780754622888
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Globalization; Immigration & emigration; Immigration law; International human rights law; Refugees; Marginality, Social; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Minorities; Constitutional; International; Legal status, laws, etc; National state
First sentence: The state of nature, though it reads as an outdated concept wed exclusively to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories of the legitimacy of law and sovereignty, still holds a quiet sway over many deeply held beliefs a society of liberal politics holds with regard to rights, freedom and obligation.