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• Legal Reasoning as a Field of Knowledge Production: Luhmann, Bourdieu and Law’s Autonomy 

  van Krieken, Robert

  Published 2004-05-01

  This paper pursues an improved theoretical understanding of the particular position of legal rationality in relation to other, competing, modes of thinking about human behaviour and social institutions. Against the background ...

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• Crime, government and civilization: Rethinking Elias in Criminology 

  van Krieken, Robert

  Published 2006-05-10

  The placement of criminal law under the control of the public authority of the sovereign or the state has always been part of an attempt to civilize its operation, both restraining the workings of law on those inflicting ...

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• The sovereignty of the governed 

  van Krieken, Robert

  Published 2006-05-10

  This paper examines the significance of the High Court cases on ‘freedom of communication’ in the 1990s for the nature of sovereignty in Australia. Rather than cutting the King’s head off, as Foucault urged us to do, these ...

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• Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and the politics of natural justice under settler-colonialism 

  van Krieken, Robert

  Published 2006-05-04

  This paper examines the progression of the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) case, and the legal construction of public participation in the making of political decsions. In the process of examining the politics of competing ...

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