Presentation
Law as Performance 1 and 3
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 24th Annual Conference
(2022)
Abstract
Law often resides in the pull between what is settled and what is not. Precedent guides us until it does not. Law’s stability is in constant conversation with its own necessary responsiveness as well as with what troubles it from outside of legal institutions. Disobediences, whether civil or not, have the power to unsettle what is taken to be settled. And forces like climate change pose challenges to settled law by destabilizing what may make obedience and order possible at all. Law continually expands the range of persons it recognizes, for better or worse, while it claims across all changes that it serves the interests of all. Borders exclude but remain permeable, and we argue about what is owed to others regardless of their citizenship status. States claim sovereignty and face refusals from other sovereignties within their borders. Even settler colonialism is a process rather than an outcome, so what is settled and what remains open to different futures may be contested. How do and should we imagine law in these unsettled times? What creative forces might we bring to bear in these moments between past and future, whether for unsettling what ought to change or stabilizing what is endangered? How might different disciplines, methodologies, arts, literatures, and technologies represent, reinforce, or resist unsettling law? We invite proposals taking up that question from a variety of humanities-oriented perspectives.
Law as Performance 1 (hybrid, Room 1E) ➢ Julie Stone Peters (chair), Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University ➢ Desmond Manderson (remote), Professor, Australian National University, Voices Off ➢ Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law and NYU Abu Dhabi, Ordo, Lex, Comedium ➢ Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, The Theatre of Dialogue
Law as Performance 3 (hybrid, Room 1E)
➢ Peter Goodrich (chair), Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law and NYU Abu Dhabi
➢ Subha Mukherji (remote), Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge, The masks of law: pleasure, play and personhood in early modern judicial drama
➢ Leanne Bablitz, Professor of Roman History, University of British Columbia, The Scene of the Crime: A prop in the roman courtroom
➢ Derek Miller, Professor of English, Harvard University, Theatre of the (Law) Book
➢ Julie Stone Peters (respondent), Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 6, 2022
Location
Atlanta, GA
Comments
Host: Emory University School of Law
Citation Information
Peter Goodrich. "Law as Performance 1 and 3" The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 24th Annual Conference (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter-goodrich/201/