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Interrupting the Legal Person: On Techniques and Grammars of Law?

Mark Antaki (McGill University, Canada)
Alexandra Popovici (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Interrupting the Legal Person

ISBN: 978-1-80262-868-5, eISBN: 978-1-80262-867-8

Publication date: 28 March 2022

Abstract

In this short chapter, we seek to begin to understand what it might mean to ‘interrupt the legal person’. We do this in two parts. In the first part, we begin with the phrase itself and interrogate its components. Interrogating these components leads us to think of the legal person as a technical and grammatical question that varies across different legal traditions and jurisdictions, i.e., across different ways of living and speaking law (recall that juris-diction says to speak the law). In the second part, we briefly explore four versions or declinations of interruptions, each corresponding to a different kind of juris-diction or legal tradition. We see this chapter as itself a friendly interruption in (or of) a broad and rich conversation so as to encourage ourselves to be struck again by some things we may take for granted.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the participants at the Interrupting the Legal Person Workshop as well as those who heard us speak and asked questions at the conférence doctorale at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, organised by Frédéric Rouvière. We would also like to thank the other members of the Groupe de recherche sur les humanités juridiques as well as the Fonds de recherche du Québec – société et culture for funding the team. Finally, we would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for a very careful and thoughtful reading and set of comments.

Citation

Antaki, M. and Popovici, A. (2022), "Interrupting the Legal Person: On Techniques and Grammars of Law?", Sarat, A., Pavlich, G. and Mailey, R. (Ed.) Interrupting the Legal Person (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 87B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-43372022000087B007

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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