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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nIf you squint a bit at the French word maladroit (t
 ranslated into English as “clumsy”) it can look like you are saying (in Fr
 ench) “bad at law.” This seems like it would be a very bad thing indeed si
 nce we tend to think of the law as something that we want to only ever be 
 good.\n\nYet\,Professor Martel will be arguing that law is at it’s best wh
 en it is at its worst (most clumsy). This is because the law is constitute
 d by an impossible tension between what it purports to be (just\, neutral\
 , fair) and the way that it actually manifests itself in the world (unjust
 \, violent\, discriminatory).\n\nIn many ways this disjunction comes from 
 the fact that law is by design an anxious self positing force that does no
 t have the ontological origins and duties that it claims. Thus\, it is in 
 fact when law performs “well” that it is in fact at it’s worst. Law in thi
 s mode kills and punishes\, it asserts its own existence by denying that o
 f others.\n\nIt is when law is bad at itself (“maladroit”) that we can see
  another side of it. A clumsy law is one that allows for its own imperfect
 ion and\, in that way\, for the human and humane acts that are often perfo
 rmed in the name of the law but actually run contrary to the mission of th
 e law.\n\nHere\, law is capable of being non or anti violent and comes clo
 ser to being what it pretends to be (but never is on its own terms). I wil
 l discuss these ideas with reference to Kafka\, Benjamin and Cavarero. \n
 \nBio\n\nFor the second conference\, we welcome James Martel\, Professor o
 f Political Science at San Francisco State University. James Martel teache
 s political theory in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco
  State University. He is the author\, most recently\, of 'Anarchist Prophe
 ts: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight' (Duke Universi
 ty Press\, 2022)\; 'Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority 
 of the Dead' (Amherst College Press\, 2018)\; and 'The Misinterpellated Su
 bject' (Duke University Press\, 2017).\n\nHe is currently working on two n
 ew book projects: 'Continuous Assembly: The Power and Promise of Non Archi
 sm' and 'Eat the Administration!' Co-authored with Blanca Missé.\n
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LOCATION:Salle Scott (16)\, Pavillon Chancellor-Day
SUMMARY:James Martel - When it comes to the law\, the clumsier the better
URL:/law/channels/event/james-martel-when-it-comes-law
 -clumsier-better-363509
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