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Jurisliterature and Transgression
Law in Context (2020)
  • Peter Goodrich, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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.

Keywords
  • Jurisliterature,
  • transgression,
  • community of intellect,
  • Twitter,
  • Shakespeare,
  • Bowdler
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Citation Information
Peter Goodrich. "Jurisliterature and Transgression" Law in Context Vol. 36 Iss. 2 (2020) p. 10
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter-goodrich/189/