Derrida and Legal Philosophy: 0 - Tapa dura

From early in his career Jacques Derrida was intrigued by law. Over time, this fascination with law grew more manifest and he published a number of highly influential analyses of ethics, justice, violence and law. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety of disciplines to assess Derrida's importance for and impact upon legal studies.

PETER GOODRICH is Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities at Cardozo School of Law, New York USA. He was the founding dean of the Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He is Editor of Law and Literature and on the Editorial Committee of Law and Critique. His most recent book is The Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
 

FLORIAN HOFFMANN is a Lecturer in International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he taught full-time in the Law Department from 2003 to 2008. During this period, he also co-directed that department's human rights center (the Núcleo de Direitos Humanos). His theoretical interests include the foundations of human rights and human rights activism as well as inernational legal theory and critical legal thought. 
MICHEL ROSENFELD is Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Security, Democracy, and the Rule of Law at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, USA. He is currently working on Law, Justice, Democracy and the Clash of Cultures (forthcoming in 2009).
 

CORNELIA VISMANN is Research Fellow in legal history at the Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her best selling study Atken, is forthcoming as Files: Law and Media Technology.