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"Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices. As rights have become the preeminent feature of modern political and legal discourse, the work of obligations has been overshadowed. Questioning and correcting this dominant image of our time, this book brings obligations back into view in a way that fits better with the realities of contemporary social life. Following a historical account of the changing place and priorities of obligations in modernity, the book analyses how obligations and practices of obedience are core to understanding how law sustains conditions of inequality. But it also explores the enduring role obligations play in furthering individual and collective well-being, highlighting their significance in practices that prioritize human and environmental needs, common goods, and solidarity. In doing so, it also offers an alternative and cogent assessment of the force, and the potential, of obligations in contemporary societies. This original jurisprudential contribution will appeal to an academic and student readership in law, politics, and the social sciences"--

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch -- 1 The Time of Reconciliation and the Space of Politics -- 2 Reconciliation and Reconstitution -- 3 The Risk of Reconciliation -- 4 Reconciliation as Domination -- 5 'Spatialising History' and Opening Time: Resisting the Reproduction of the Proper Subject -- 6 Reconciliation: Where is the Law? -- 7 Transnational Law and Societal Memory -- 8 Sacrum, Profanum and Social Time: Quasi-theological Reflections on Time and Reconciliation -- 9 Reconciliation as Therapy and Compensation: A Critical Analysis -- 10 Feminism and the Ethics of Reconciliation -- 11 Constitution as Archive -- 12 The Time of Address

Taking as a starting point the banner that came to prominence with the protests against the invasion of Iraq, this article explores the ways in which legal institutions and categories organize the responsibility, and irresponsibility, of its citizens. It does so by providing a variety of perspectives of the relation between state and citizen, and by paying particular attention to how the categorization of responsibility in legal, economic and political terms manages issues of responsibility and its disavowal.

"This book offers a series of original essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law's attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of law's relation to time, memory, and the ethics of reconciliation, it is a sustained jurisprudential and philosophical analysis of one of the most important and pressing legal concerns of our time. Among its key concerns is that justice's demand on law has changed and, in the face of a divided and violent past, law is being called on to do the kind of work it ordinarily shuns. What this means for conventional understandings of law, as well as for the relation between law and politics in times of transition, is explored through a discussion of experiences from Eastern Europe and Germany, to South Africa, Israel, and Australia. The book thus provides a timely investigation of the nature of law and legal institutions in times of political and social change, and will appeal to a broad international audience including lawyers, political theorists, criminologists, and philosophers."--Bloomsbury Publishing