The example of undressing: Obnubilations on the empty space of the rule.

Date

2017

Authors

Goodrich, Peter

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Publisher

Law & Literature

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Abstract

The legal example is used in large part to dress the rule. A naked norm, for common lawyers, is simply an abstraction, an umbrageous nebulosity that needs its particulars, its cases, to have meaning, impact and thought. Using the paradoxical example of nakedness the essay examines the inability of British and European courts candidly to address the undressed. Nakedness is here examined as an instance of undressing the law, of stripping and streaking the norm.

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Keywords

rule, example, habitus and habit, Stephen Gough, public order, contempt of court, human rights, limits of law

Citation

Goodrich, Peter. (2017) The example of undressing: Obnubilations on the empty space of the rule. Law & Literature, 1-14.