Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a
contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal
fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political
thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary
project, an account of what improved institutions and an
ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start
than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to
come. The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive
contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the
vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and
diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the
celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new
laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and
dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film,
science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics,
architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring
instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides
an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This
momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety
of novel critical perspectives. The contributions aim to inspire
reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of
law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and
other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law
as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and
constructs life. Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with
the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines,
this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars
and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and
an increasingly derelict legal system.
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