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UMBR(a) no.1, 2003
Ignorance of the Law

"In my opinion a superabundance of regulations and prohibitions injures the authority of the law. It can be observed that where only a few prohibitions exist they are carefully observed, but where one is accompanied by prohibitions at every step, one feels definitely tempted to disregard them. Moreover, it does not mean one is quite an anarchist if one is prepared to realize that laws and regulations cannot from their origin claim to possess the attribute of being sacred and untransgressable, that they are often inadequately framed and offend our sense of justice, or will do so after a time, and that, in view of the sluggishness of the authorities, there is often no other means of correcting such inexpedient laws than by boldly violating them."

 

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Alissa Lea Jones Editorial: Ignorance of the Law . . .
Etienne Balibar The Subject
Marina de Carneri Omnitudo Realitatis
Alain Badiou Lack and Destruction
Candace Vogler Lack of Being, Denial of Good
Steven Miller Lacan at the Limits of Legal Theory: Law, Desire, and Sovereign Violence
Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks Being Human: Bestiality, Anthropophagy, and Law
Yannis Stavrakakis The Lure of Antigone: Aporias of an Ethics of the Political
Slavoj Zizek "What Some Would Call . . .": A Response to Yannis Stavrakakis
Reviews Steven Spielberg, Judith Butler, Shoshana Felman