Présentation de l’éditeur

This book presents and engages the world-building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions.

In these studies, the contributors take seriously the legal world building of science and speculative fiction to reveal, animate and critique legal wisdom: juris-prudence. Following a common approach in cultural legal studies, the contributors engage directly, and in detail, with specific cultural ‘texts’, novels, television, films and video games in order to explore a range of possible legal futures. The book is organized in three parts: first, the contextualisation of science and speculative fiction as jurisprudence; second, the temporality of law and legal theory and third, the analysis of specific science and speculative fictions. Throughout, the contributors reveal the way in which law as nomos builds normative universes through the narration of a future.

This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in legal theory, cultural legal studies, law and the humanities and law and literature.

Alex Green is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK.

Mitchell Travis is Associate Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.

Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Sommaire

1. The collapse and the spiral: Law, culture and science fiction 

Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter 

Part I: Foundation 

2. The magnitudes of law and science fiction 

Kieran Tranter 

Part II: The high castle – science fiction as legal theory 

3. Dystopian jurisprudence 

Mitchell Travis 

4. Black/African science fiction and imaginative resistance: Explorations towards a racially just jurisprudence of the future 

Folúkẹ́ Adébísí 

5. There is no ‘I’ in law: The past and future of legal authority and subjects 

Chris Dent 

6. The three-body problem: Prometheus, Pandora and the cosmic jurisprudence 

Moira McMillan 

7. Law, sovereignty and its subversions in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy 

Daniel Hourigan 

8. Experimenting in legal dystopia: Conceptualising and interrogating socio-legal and jurisprudential problems in science fiction video games 

Craig John Newbery-Jones 

9. Sir Samuel Griffith and utopia: Characterising the politician 

Karen Schultz 

Part III: The shadow proclamation – fevered legality in sci-fi franchises 

10. ‘The circle must be broken’: Imagining legal monsterhood through Doctor Who 

Steven S Kapica 

11. No way out: The liberal fantasy of rebellion in Andor 

Isaac Henry 

12. Boldly gone: The estranged presence of law in Star Trek 

Kieran Tranter 

Part IV: Others 

13. Ex silico: Fictions, predictions and personhoods in film and law 

Bruce Baer Arnold 

14. Ectogestation as emancipation: A feminist science fiction 

Zoe L Tongue 

15. Dreaming of electric sheep: Android lessons for nature 

Felicity Deane