Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age

Ben Golder teaches courses on law and social theory, on public law, and on the politics of human rights, in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He is an Associate Editor of the journal, Contemporary Political Theory, a member of the Editorial Committee of the UK-based journal, Law and Critique, a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, and a member of the Editorial Board of the radical, open access publisher, Counterpress. His most recent book is Foucault and the Politics of Rights (Stanford, 2015).Daniel McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of New South Wales. He is the editor of Agamben and Radical Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and has published extensively on theories of sovereignty, biopolitics and government in journals including Theory & Event, Law and Critique, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and Angelaki.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesIntroduction‘The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age’Ben Golder and Daniel McLoughlinSection One: The Law and Legality of NeoliberalismChapter One: ‘Transformations of the Rule of Law: Legal, Liberal, and Neo-’Martin KrygierChapter Two: ‘Thatcherism as an Extension of Consensus’Michael GardinerChapter Three: ‘Foucault and Becker: A Biopolitical Approach to Human Capital and the Stability of Preferences’Miguel VatterSection Two: Constituting NeoliberalismChapter Four: ‘Constructing "Privatopia": The Role of Constitutional Law in Chile’s Radical Neoliberal Experiment’Javier CousoChapter Five: ‘The Rise of Juridical Neoliberalism’Thomas BiebricherChapter Six: ‘Neoliberalism as Legalism: International Economic Law and the Rise of the Judiciary’Ntina TzouvalaSection Three: Human Rights and NeoliberalismChapter Seven: ‘A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism’Samuel MoynChapter Eight: ‘An Unlikely Resonance? Subjects of Human Rights and Subjects of Human Capital Reconsidered’Zachary ManfrediChapter Nine: ‘Articulating Human Rights Discourse in Local Struggles in a Neoliberal Age’Zeynep Kivilcim