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CALL FOR PAPERS / SUBMISSIONS VOLUME V (2025)

2024-02-29

RHIZOMATIC LAW: UNDERSTANDING THE LINEARITY AND PENDULUM OF LEGAL EVOLUTION

GUEST EDITORS: Anne Wagner (Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du droit (ULR 4487), équipe René Demogue - Lille University France)  & Sarah Marusek (Department of Political Science University of Hawai’i Hilo, USA)

Our Special Issue delves into the intricate and dynamic nature of legal systems, contrasting concepts of linear progression with those of the perpetual pendulum in law. This exploration integrates the rhizomatic theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, proposed in 1987, which suggests a non-linear, network-like framework for understanding legal changes. It challenges conventional views of law as a hierarchy, instead presenting it as a complex web of interconnections where various factors, including political, cultural, economic, and social energies, interact in unpredictable ways. This approach acknowledges the multifaceted nature of legal evolution, encompassing both steady, predictable developments and cyclical, reactionary shifts.

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No. 3 (2023): Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling
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The third volume of Undecidabilities and Law “takes place” under the sign of exception, an exception that we believe is nevertheless justified and productive. For the first time, we have a special issue based on a colloquium (Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling, Coimbra, May 26th to 28th 2022), which is thus illuminated by the precious and unrepeatable moment that this meeting allowed — even if the final outcome is intended to be less a faithful reconstruction of what happened (of what was then effectively said and discussed) than the testimony of the dialogue and intertwined research that its unforgettable occasio set in motion (and that the following rewriting of the chapters corroborates). It is the strength of this very special context (or succession of contexts) that justifies, for example, maintaining in its entirety the moving intervention with which James Boyd White, speaking albeit remotely from the other margin of the Atlantic, privileged us at the opening of this meeting (see, infra, Introductory Note).

Published: 2023-12-15

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