Contradiction Studies

Law and (its) Contradictions

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Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies) und Nils Kohlmeier (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/22/2022 2:30 pm –4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Readings

Brown, Wendy. 2002. Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights. In Brown, Wendy & Janet Halley (eds.) Left Legalism/Left Critique, 420–434. Durham: Duke University Press. [Dt.: Brown, Wendy. [2002] 2011. Die Paradoxien der Rechte ertragen. In Menke, Christoph, Franceska Raimondi (eds.) Die Revolution der Menschenrechte: grundlegende Texte zu einem neuen Begriff des Politischen, 454–473. Berlin: Suhrkamp.]

Supplementary Readings

Austermann, Nele. 2021. Recht der Diversität. In Fischer-Lescano, Andreas, Peter Sperlich (eds.), Landesrecht Bremen, 302–208. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Erbguth, Wilfred, Annette Guckelberger. 2018. Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht mit Verwaltungsprozessrecht und Staatshaftungsrecht, 340–416. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Fischer-Lescano, Andreas. 2021. From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action. In Saage-Maaß, Miriam, Peer, Zumbansen & Michael Baader & Palvasha Shahab (eds.) Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice, 299–312. Heidelberg: Springer.

Luhmann, Niklas. 2003. Die Paradoxie des Entscheidens. In Balke, Friedrich, Gregor Schwering & Urs Stäheli (eds.) Paradoxien der Entscheidung: Wahl/Selektion in Kunst, Literatur und Medien, 17– 56. Bielefeld: transcript.

Markard, Nora, Laura Adamietz. 2011. Keep it in the Closet? Flüchtlingsanerkennung wegen Homosexualität auf dem Prüfstand. In KJ Kritische Justiz 44 (3), 294–302. https://doi.org/10.5771/0023-4834-2011-3-294. 

Teubner, Gunther. 2003. Der Umgang mit Rechtsparadoxien: Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter. In Joerges, Christian, Gunther Teubner (eds.) Rechtsverfassungsrecht: Recht-Fertigung zwischen Privatrechtsdogmatik und Gesellschaftstheorie, 25–46. Baden-Baden: Nomos. (abrufbar unter: https://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/42828772/Generic_42828772.pdf).

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Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke