Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Introduction
‘The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age’
Ben Golder and Daniel McLoughlin
Section One: The Law and Legality of Neoliberalism
Chapter One: ‘Transformations of the Rule of Law: Legal, Liberal, and Neo-’
Martin Krygier
Chapter Two: ‘Thatcherism as an Extension of Consensus’
Michael Gardiner
Chapter Three: ‘Foucault and Becker: A Biopolitical Approach to Human Capital and the Stability of Preferences’
Miguel Vatter
Section Two: Constituting Neoliberalism
Chapter Four: ‘Constructing "Privatopia": The Role of Constitutional Law in Chile’s Radical Neoliberal Experiment’
Javier Couso
Chapter Five: ‘The Rise of Juridical Neoliberalism’
Thomas Biebricher
Chapter Six: ‘Neoliberalism as Legalism: International Economic Law and the Rise of the Judiciary’
Ntina Tzouvala
Section Three: Human Rights and Neoliberalism
Chapter Seven: ‘A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism’
Samuel Moyn
Chapter Eight: ‘An Unlikely Resonance? Subjects of Human Rights and Subjects of Human Capital Reconsidered’
Zachary Manfredi
Chapter Nine: ‘Articulating Human Rights Discourse in Local Struggles in a Neoliberal Age’
Zeynep Kivilcim
Ben Golder teaches courses on law and social theory, on public law,
and on the politics of human rights, in the Faculty of Law at the
University of New South Wales. He is an Associate Editor of the
journal, Contemporary Political Theory, a member of the Editorial
Committee of the UK-based journal, Law and Critique, a member of
the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, and
a member of the Editorial Board of the radical, open access
publisher, Counterpress. His most recent book is Foucault and the
Politics of Rights (Stanford, 2015).
Daniel McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the
University of New South Wales. He is the editor of Agamben and
Radical Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and has
published extensively on theories of sovereignty, biopolitics and
government in journals including Theory & Event, Law and Critique,
Law, Culture and the Humanities, and Angelaki.
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