Paul Maharg, Transforming legal education: learning and teaching the law in the early twenty-first century

This chapter suggests that the law of sovereignty and statehood tends to be practiced, organized, and theorized around two sets of argument (and a sleight of hand), and that this tendency has produced certain effects on the distribution of political resources in global politics. The first argument is structured around the material and immaterial qualities of statehood, as it maintains that the ‘infinite transition’ discussed by Peter Fitzpatrick is produced partly by the elasticity of the doctrinal ground and partly by the remarkable stability of a very particular and idealized sovereign subject. The second argument rests on an idiom of fragmentation and unity, by juxtaposing an apparent golden age of post-Charter state sovereignty with both a decentralized nineteenth-century sovereignty, and a more protean, early twenty-first century sovereignty. Finally, the ‘sleight of hand’ operates around the relationship between routine statehood and sui generis sovereignty.

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Law, the Constitution and Legal Education in the Twenty-First Century

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review ◽

10.26686/vuwlr.v31i1.5967 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Kenneth J Keith

Keyword(s):

Legal Education ◽

First Century ◽

Lecture Series ◽

Wide Range ◽

University College ◽

The Law ◽

Twenty First Century

Sir Kenneth Keith gave the lecture on which this paper is based as part of the 1999 Centennial Alumni Lecture series. Using the career of the first Dean of Law at Victoria University College as his inspiration, Sir Kenneth deals with a wide range of issues which all those in the law, be they judges, practitioners, teachers or students will have to address.

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Continuing Visions

10.1093/oso/9780198813279.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Linda Freedman

Keyword(s):

Social Activism ◽

William Blake ◽

First Century ◽

Ridley Scott ◽

American Novel ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Protest Group ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Dead Man

The questions that drove Blake’s American reception, from its earliest moments in the nineteenth century through to the explosion of Blakeanism in the mid-twentieth century, did not disappear. Visions of America continued to be part of Blake’s late twentieth- and early twenty-first century American legacy. This chapter begins with the 1982 film Blade Runner, which was directed by the British Ridley Scott but had an American-authored screenplay and was based on a 1968 American novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It moves to Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film, Dead Man and Paul Chan’s twenty-first century social activism as part of a protest group called The Friends of William Blake, exploring common themes of democracy, freedom, limit, nationhood, and poetic shape.

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