This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law reconceptualising legal theory in a material, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The handbook brings law into active discussion with other disciplines capturing the most anticipated developments in legal theory.

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND THEORYAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.)TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTIONAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos The and of Law and TheoryPART ONE: SPATIOTEMPORAL1. Luis Eslava Dense Struggle: On Ghosts, Law, and the Global Order 2. Chris Butler Spatial abstraction, legal violence and the promise of appropriation3. Sarah Keenan A prison around your ankle and a border in every street: Theorising law, space and the subject4. Emily Grabham Praxiographies' of Time: Law, Temporalities, and Material Worlds5. Lucy Finchett-Maddock Continua of (In)Justice6. Olivia Barr Movement An Homage to Legal Drips, Wobbles & Perpetual MotionPART TWO: SENSE7. Andrea Pavoni Disenchanting senses: Law and the taste of the real8. Nicola Masciandario Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law9. Dragan Milovanovich Touching You, Touching Me In Law and Justice: Toward a Quantum Holographic Process-Informational Understanding10. Illan rua Wall Turbulent legality: Sovereignty, Security and the PolicePART THREE: BODY11. Elena Loizidou Sequences on Law and the Body12. Laurent de Sutter On Resisting Bodies13. Renisa Mawani Insect Wars: Bees, Bedbugs, and Biopolitics14. Anna Grear Anthropocene "Time"? A reflection on temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’15. Yoriko Otomo Making Lawful AnimalsPART FOUR: TEXT16. Honni van Rijswijk Law’s Aggressive Realism and Feminist Genres of Violence and Harm17. Maria Aristodemou From Decaffeinated Democracy to Democracy in the Real in Ten (Lacanian) Sessions18. Christopher Tomlins Why Law’s Objects Do Not Disappear: On History as Remainder19. James Martel Must the law be a liar? Walter Benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law20. Alain Pottage Literary MaterialityPART FIVE: MATTER21. Emilie Cloatre and David Cowan Legalities and Materialities22. Hyo Yoon Kang Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or how Matter Becomes Material23. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos To Have to Do with the Law: An Essay24. Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore On new model jurisprudence: the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan.INDEX