Essays on Levinas and Law A Mosaic

This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors GENESIS Introduction; D.Manderson EXODUS Getting Down to Cases: Can a Levinasian Ethics Generate Norms?; D.Perpich Levinasian Ethics and the Concept of Law; J.Crowe Questions for a Reluctant Jurisprudence of Alterity; N.Smith Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law; J.Stauffer LEVITICUS Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice; R.Gibbs 'Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs': Levinas and the law of torts; D.Manderson To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the 'morality of law'; M.Diamantides NUMBERS Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law; S.Jodoin The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: 'Illegal' Immigrants Stand Over American Law; M.Failinger Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish contexts after the Shoah ; D.Glowacka DEUTERONOMY Anarchic Law; S.Critchley (with a response by D.Manderson) Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity; J.Sims Rethinking Justice with Levinas; S.Roberts-Cady Index

SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy, New School of Social Research, New York, USA JONATHAN CROWE is a Lecturer in the T. C. Beirne School of Law and a Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland, Australia MARINOS DIAMANTIDES is a Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MARIE A. FAILINGER is a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota, U.S.A ROBERT GIBBS is a Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada DOROTA GLOWACKA teaches critical theory and Holocaust studies in the Contemporary Studies Programme, University of King's College, Halifax, Canada SÉBASTIEN JODOIN is an IBA Fellow in the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as well as a Legal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law DIANE PERPICH is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University, USASARAH ROBERTS-CADY is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, USA JESSE SIMS is a doctoral candidate at The New School for Social Research in New York City, USA NICK SMITH is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, USA JILL STAUFFER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College/CUNY in New York City, USA.