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Forthcoming

“Introduction: Legal theory in Wonderland” in Book Symposium: Desmond Manderson, Proximity, Levinas and the Soul of Law (2008) 33 Aust. J. Legal Philosophy (4,000 words)

“Response: ‘and it really was a kitten, after all” in Book Symposium: Desmond Manderson, Proximity, Levinas and the Soul of Law (2008) 33 Aust. J. Legal Philosophy (3,000 words)

2008

Essays on Levinas and Law: A Mosaic, Palgrave Macmillan, London & New York, 2008. 400pp.

Editor, "The Court of Shakespeare" (2008) Symposium Vol 4 No. 1 Law, Culture and the Humanities 52-118.

"'As If' - The Court of Shakespeare and the Relationship of Law and Literature [.pdf]" (2008) 4 Law, Culture and the Humanities 52-68.

"Not Drowning, Waiving: Responsibility to Others in the Court of Shakespeare [.pdf]" (with Paul Yachnin, Peter Goodrich, Constance Jordan, and Richard Strier),(2008) 4 Law, Culture and the Humanities 68-118.

"Desert Island Disks (Ten Reveries in Inter-disciplinary Pedagogy)" (2008) 1 Public Space

"Another Modest Proposal: In defence of the prohibition against torture," in Miriam Gani et al, eds., Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’ (Canberra: ANU Press, 2008).

"Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law [.pdf]" (2008) 29 Arena 1-54.

"Judgment” for Austin Sarat, ed., Law and Humanities Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) (8,000 words)

2007

"Socialisation in a Space of Law: Student Performativity in a Law Faculty"   (2007) 25 Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 761-82. (with S. Turner)

"Leftovers: the end of private law", published as ‘La gourmandise’ in Nicholas Kasirer (ed.), Les sept péchés capitaux et le droit privé (Montreal: Editions Thémis) 255-76.

“Here I Am: Illuminating and delimiting responsibility," in Marinos Diamantides, ed., Levinas, Law, Politics (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) 145-64.

2006

Proximity, Levinas and the Soul of Law McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, May 2006. 280pp. Download Proximity: Ethics and the Soul of Law [.pdf], the introductory chapter.

with Sarah Turner, Coffee House: Habitus and Performance Among Law Students [.pdf] (2006) 31(3) Law and Social Inquiry 649-676.

“Emmanuel Levinas and the Philosophy of Negligence” [.pdf] (2006) 14 Tort Law Review 1-18.

2005

"Legal Spaces" (sole editor) Special Issue, Vol 9 (2005) Law, Text, Culture. 250pp.

Interstices: new work on legal spaces [.pdf] Special Issue, Vol 9 (2005) Law Text Culture 1-10.

"Proximity and the Ethics of Law" [.pdf] (2005) 28 UNSW Law Journal 697-720.

Another Modest Proposal [.pdf] (2005) 10(2) Deakin Law Review 41.

The Ethics of Proximity: An Essay for William Deane [.pdf] (2005) 14(2) Griffith Law Review 295-329.

Possessed: Drug Policy, Witchcraft and Belief [.pdf] Cultural Studies (2005) 19: 36-63.

2004

"Love on Trial: Same sex marriage in the Court of Shakespeare" McGill Law Journal (2004) 49: 475-511.

"In the tout court of Shakespeare: Interdisciplinary pedagogy in law" Journal of Legal Education (2004) 54: 283-302.

Before 2003

"From Hunger to Love [.pdf]: Myths of the source, interpretation, and constitution of law in children's literature" Law and Literature (2003)15: 87-142.

With Richard Mohr, From oxymoron to intersection: an epidemiology of legal research [.pdf] Law Text Culture (2003) 6: 165 - 83.

The Coalition of the Unwilling - Corruption, Ethics and the Discourse of War [.pdf] Australian Financial Review, ‘Review’ April 4, 2003, pp. 4 -5.

Shadow Boxing [.pdf] Australian Financial Review, Friday October 26, pp 3.

The Care of Strangers [.pdf] Australian Financial Review, Friday August 24, 2002: 1-2. Reproduced by kind permission.

Apocryphal Jurisprudence [.pdf] Studies in Law, Politics and Society (2001) 23: 81 - 111.

Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (University of California Press, 2000).

(editor) Courting Death: The Law of Mortality (Pluto Press, 1999).

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