Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State (2001)

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LAW AND NATURE
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between concep-
tions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It
focusesonthepoliticsandpragmaticsofnaturetalkasexpressedinboth
extralegaldisputesandtheirtransformationandtranslationintoformsof
legaldiscourse(tort,property,contract,administrativelaw,criminallaw,
and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics
of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of
American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific political-
legaldisputesandarguments. Thesetconsistsofaseriesofcontextsand
cases organized around a conventional distinction between “external”
and “internal” nature: forces of nature, endangered species, animal
experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening,
biologicaldefensesincriminalcases,andinvoluntarymedicationofin-
mates.Hedemonstratesthroughoutthatnearlyanyconstrualof“nature”
entailsaninterpretationofwhatitistobe(distinctively)human.
DAVID DELANEY isVisitingAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentof
Law,Jurisprudence,andSocialThoughtatAmherstCollege. Hispubli-
cationsincludeRace,PlaceandtheLaw(1998)andTheLegalGeographies
Reader(co-editor,withNicholasBlomleyandRichardFord,2001). He
has also written many articles exploring the intersection of legal and
geographicalscholarship.

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society aims to publish the best scholarly
workonlegaldiscourseandpracticeinitssocialandinstitutionalcon-
texts,combiningtheoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch.
Thefieldsthatitcoversarestudiesoflawinaction;thesociologyof
law;theanthropologyoflaw;culturalstudiesoflaw,includingtheroleof
legaldiscoursesinsocialformations;lawandeconomics;lawandpolitics;
andstudiesofgovernance.Thebooksconsiderallformsoflegaldiscourse
acrosssocieties,ratherthanbeinglimitedtolawyers’discoursesalone.
The series editors come from a range of disciplines: academic law;
socio-legalstudies;sociologyandanthropology.Allhavebeenactively
involvedinteachingandwritingaboutlawincontext.
SeriesEditors
ChrisArup
VictoriaUniversity,Melbourne
MartinChanock
LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne
PatO’Malley
CarletonUniversity,Ottawa
SallyEngleMerry
WellesleyCollege,Massachusetts
SusanSilbey
MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology
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NegotiatingCompetingClaimsinMulti–EthnicStates
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ConstitutingDemocracy
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LAW AND NATURE
David Delaney
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