My article is published! “The Spatio-Legal Production of Bodies Through the Legal Fiction of Death” is out now in
@LawAndCritique
. Read if you are into law’s relations to space, bodies and medical practice.
The article is derived from work done for my LLM thesis, which was supervised by
@jgdownie
at
@SchulichLaw
. I revisited that work through the spatio-legal theory I have been working through for my PhD with my supervisor Roxanne Mykitiuk at
@OsgoodeNews
.
In the acknowledgements section, I express that "I am grateful to Dr.
@jgdownie
, who supervised the LLM thesis this paper was derived from; Dr.
@BasuRanu
, who mentored me in critical geography during the first year of my PhD and whose thinking factored so significantly [...]
[...] in my revisitation of my LLM work; Dr. Roxanne Mykitiuk, who supervises me now as my PhD supervisor and pushes me to think through law’s relation to new materialism, bodies and embodiment; and Dr. Joshua Evans, who invited me to participate in [...]
[...] a panel on legal and health geographies at the
@CanGeographers
' annual meeting in 2019 and whose suggestion on the relevance of Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic proved eminently helpful. I am also thankful to the editors of
@LawAndCritique
[...]
[...] and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments." I am very appreciative of the help each of these individuals—among others—have provided me during my time at
@SchulichLaw
and
@OsgoodeNews
.
The following link should take you to a free, read only, full text copy of my
@LawAndCritique
paper, “The Spatio-Legal Production of Bodies Through the Legal Fiction of Death.” I am not sure how long it will do that, though, so go quickly!
@a_chamberlen
@LawAndCritique
Thank you! :) My review of your book, Embodying Punishment, is still forthcoming in
@OHLJ
, by the by! I believe it be out in a few months.