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.