The stream convenor is me: Joshua DM Shaw, PhD Candidate at @OsgoodeNews , and incoming Schulich Fellow at @SchulichLaw . Submit abstracts to: JoshuaShaw @osgoode .yorku.ca

Stream description: Lately some jurisprudents and sociolegal scholars have revived interest in the human body’s ‘recalcitrance’ (Mykitiuk 1994), or how law ‘smuggles in’ the body ( @SaraNAhmed 1995), theorising how the body contributes to the formation of law.

For example, a recent collection of essays edited by @chrisdtz , @DrMitchTravis and Michael Thomson (2020) proposed a ‘jurisprudence of the body,’ taking inspiration from corporeal feminists like Elizabeth Grosz (1994) and Moira Gatens (1996) in the social study of medical and...

… public health law, albeit with attention to a larger range of bodily differences implicated in law’s expression (also see @AlexSharpe64 2002). In different contexts yet relatedly, @seanamulcahy (2021) has written on a jurisprudence staging the dancing body as a method…

… for describing, analysing and imagining law, and @DanardoSJones (2020) has conceptualised the imbrication of Black bodies and space through the notion of ‘darkscapes,’ noting how the bodily differences of Black men, in particular…

… are distorted in racist legal regimes (also see @DanardoSJones and Sheehy 2021). In these works, the limits of understanding law as discourse, posited or convention are laid bare: a material residue accretes in law’s reduction, averring to ontologies that can…

… matter (Barad 2007; Pottage 2012) to the genesis of law’s forms and their consequence in life. But these jurisprudences tend to prioritise a complete, individualised human body ( @JoshuaDMShaw 2022), neglecting those bodily parts, fragments or substances that also act on and…

… mediate the lawful ( @JoshuaDMShaw 2020; @JoshuaDMShaw and Mykitiuk 2022), evincing the transcorporeal (Alaimo 2010; Scott 2016) that, like with other social forms, regularises legal relations, meanings and institutions. Drawing on the spatio-legal theories of…

… @picpoet___ (2015), Margaret Davies (2018), @ruawall (2021), @ThargianMawn (2017) among others—as well as insights from new materialist and post-human scholarship—it might be possible to locate a formative ‘recalcitrance’ in the affections of bodily parts or other…

… materials that are simultaneously part of and apart from the human. In other words, there may be something formative for law in those liminal, more-than-human phenomena that compose, comprise and exceed the human: the possibility of fleshy jurisprudences in the chiasm…

… between beings. The proposed stream is hoping to gather papers that consider the following: - How do more-than-human phenomena, which compose, comprise and exceed the human body, contribute to the formation of law?

- What methods might assist describing the contribution of more-than-human phenomena (specifically those that compose, comprise and exceed the human body) to law?

- What is gained and/or lost for the jurisprudent in describing the human body as transcorporeal (Alaimo 2010; Scott 2016)? Are there more helpful concepts (particularly having regard to the body’s ontological relation to milieu)?

- What is gained and/or lost for the jurisprudent in describing the human body as transcorporeal (Alaimo 2010; Scott 2016)? Are there more helpful concepts (particularly having regard to the body’s ontological relation to milieu)?

- Some scholars like @vdl (2020) have suggested the possibility of returning to natural law. How might natural law be revisited having regard to the contribution of bodily parts, fragments or substances to the formation of law?

The stream, other streams, and more information about the conference can be found at the website below. Consider submitting!

@JoshuaDMShaw Ooooh, this panel is custom built for me! I will see what I can gather together for an abstract.

@CyborgTamara ☺️

@JoshuaDMShaw Very cool indeed! Love the artwork too!