Schreber's Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition

PPC 14mm, 274 x 366mmPlease provide proof as a low res print file with trim marks'What a ride! In this learned, funny, and breathtakingly virtuoso performance, one wild and crazy but eminently sane lawyer rescues another wild and crazy but eminently sane lawyer from those doctors - including Freud, Lacan and God - who would unman him by curing him of the desire to occupy the body and spirit of a woman so that he might thereby leave behind the iron logic of the law and enter into a saving state of voluptuousness and openness of soul. Absolutely exhilarating.'Stanley FishDaniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was a senior German judge and jurist. He formulated a unique juridical theology of private life and developed a critical account of oikonomia, the practice of governance and administration. But his theoretical work was largely ignored due to his nervous illness and his desire to be a woman in a time inhospitable to transitions. Now, Schreber's Law looks beyond the misdiagnosis of the judge's transitional desires, to reappraise his contribution to legal theory.Peter Goodrich evaluates Schreber's jurisprudence by analysing the Memoirs and its varied interpretations in detail, and sets his work in the context of both the neo-Kantian pure science of law of fin de siècle German jurisprudence and twenty-first-century legal theory. This radically novel analysis reveals how Schreber's work not only challenges the legal thought of his era but also opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York and Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, Abu Dhabi.Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-2656-5Barcode