Courses

The Law of Violence

Law and Violence introduces key theoretical and historical readings on the relationship between law and violence. Are they mutually exclusive forms of human action? Is it a contradiction that violence is often the means to establish or change the law? Such questions will be considered in historical contexts of the nation-state and the global legal order. Thinkers considered will include but are not limited to: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon and Antony Anghie.