Ecolaw : legality, life, and the normativity of nature / Margaret Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Margaret (Law teacher), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law and biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"This book re-imagines law as ecolaw. The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. Law is part of the material 'everything' that is connected to everything else. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it is after all possible to think of law as 'natural' - as embedded in and emergent from a normative biophysical nature. The book proposes that there exists a natural nomos: animals, plants, and Earth systems that produce their own values and norms from which human norms and laws emerge. This book, then, proposes a new way to understand law, and pursues specific arguments to demonstrate the feasibility of law as ecolaw. Drawing inspiration from current trends in the posthumanities, socio-ecological thought, and developments across the natural sciences in their specific intersections with humanities and social science disciplines, this book will appeal both to legal theorists and to others with interests in these areas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Beginnings

Argument

Law in/as Nature

Strategies and Methods

Chapter Outline

1 A New Living Law

'Normative' Nature

Bio-norms, Geo-norms, and Human Norms

Conclusion

2 Teleologies of the Nonhuman

Nature, in the Wider Sense

Nature and the Human

Teleological Life

3 Biogenesis and Jurisgenesis

New Normals and New Natures: Canguilhem on Vital Normativity

Self, Norm, and World-Creating Agents

Being and Co-becoming

4 Geolaw as Flow and Stasis

Life and Nonlife

Material Flows: Water and Energy

Conclusion: Normative Flow

5 Law, Nature, and Legal Theory

Natural Law

Positive Law in a Normative Pluriverse

Self-Identity and Co-Becoming: Autopoiesis and Sympoiesis

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-122) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Davies, Margaret EcoLaw

ISBN:

1-00-312833-5

1-003-12833-5

1-000-61442-5

9781003128335

OCLC:

1310470813