William P Macneil

Biographic Data

ID167294
NAMEWilliam P Macneil
GIVEN NAMESWilliam P
FAMILY NAMEMacneil
SIGNATUREMACNEIL W P
AFFILIATIONSGriffith University
ORCID0000-0002-9453-9773
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR19
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Alex Deagon, Christian Natural Law and Religious Freedom

    Open AccessWilliam P Macneil, William MacNeilARTICLELegalities2026

  • Editors’ Foreword

    Open AccessJohn Page, Carwyn Jones et al.ARTICLELegalities2025

  • A wilderness of monkeys

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELaw and Humanities2025

    I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys': so, says The Merchant of Venice's Shylock, referencing the ring gifted to him by his late wife, Leah, now stolen by his errant daughter, Jessica.An odd pronouncement for a character often read as an exemplar of exchange values for whom everyone and everything has its price.Excepting, of course, Leah's 'turquoise'.The implied use value of which repositions Shakespeare's most uncomfortable ste…

  • All of Us Strangers , 2023, film, Blueprint Pictures/Film4/Searchlight Picture. Directed by Andrew Haigh

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELegalities2024

  • The Last of Us? Law and the Virus

    Open AccessMan-Chung Chiu, William P MacneilARTICLELegalities2023

  • Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Rebecca Kiddle, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton and Amanda Thomas, Imagining Decolonisation

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELegalities2022

  • Honni van Rijswijk, Breeder

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELegalities2021

  • Lacanian ink and leather ‘down under’

    William P MacneilARTICLEGriffith Law Review2017

    Throughout 2013, the then Queensland Government passed an increasingly bizarre series of legislative acts aimed, specifically, at largely Gold Coast based ‘bikies’; that is, local motorcycle club members long notorious for their links with drug traffickers, prostitution rings and organised crime. Consisting of the Criminal Law (Criminal Organisation Disruption) Amendment Act 2013 (Qld), the Tattoo Parlours Act 2013 (Qld), and the hilariously moni…

  • Machiavellian fantasy and the game of laws

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLECritical Quarterly2015

  • Brokeback’s Bareback

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELaw/text/culture2015

    One evening, almost a decade ago, at a smart dinner party held in Northcote, an inner suburb of Melbourne, the utterly fabulous and now, sadly, late Penny Pether turned to me after some discussion of the then recent American gay rights decision, the Supreme Court’s landmark Lawrence v Texas, and suggested, with her customary forthrightness that I should write about the case within the context of a film that both of us had only lately seen (her, o…

  • Waxing Lacanian

    William P Macneil, William MacNeil et al.ARTICLEGriffith Law Review2013

  • Galactic Jurisprudence

    Open AccessWilliam P Macneil, Lynda Davies et al.ARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2007

  • Precrime Never Pays! ‘Law and Economics’ in Minority Report

    William P MacneilARTICLEContinuum2005Cited by: 3References: 3

    This paper examines the notion of "precrime" as articulated in the most recent Philip K. Dick film treatment (and Tom Cruise vehicle) Minority Report. I will situate precrime within a jurisprudential tradition concerned with prediction. The jurisprudence I look to, however, is not so much Holmes' celebrated 19th century realism (with its focus on "the predictive theory of the law") as its contemporary equivalent, Law and Economics. I will argue t…

  • The Monstrous Body Of The Law

    William P MacneilARTICLEAustralian Feminist Law Journal1999References: 2

    The principal claim of this article is uncontroversial: that Romanticism reinvents rights. But what distinguishes this article's claim from that of countless others is that this rich and strange alchemy of reinvention stems not from that 'most wanted' of usual suspects, Rousseau (and behind him, Montesquieu,Voltaire and d' Alembert; and in the anglophone world, Locke and Hobbes). Rather this article locates rights' source elsewhere, in an alterna…

  • BeyondGovernmentality

    William P MacneilARTICLEAustralian Feminist Law Journal1999References: 6

    (1999). Beyond Governmentality: Retributive, Distributive and Deconstructive Justice in Great Expectations. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 13, LAW, CULTURE AND THE QUESTIONS OF FEMINISM, pp. 98-118

  • John Austin or Jane Austen

    Open AccessWilliam P Macneil, W MacNeilARTICLELaw/text/culture1998

    It used to be a truth universally acknowledged that the novels of Jane Austen were narratives in want of context. The Napoleonic Wars, industrialisation and the French Revolution: in fact, all the great and heroic events of the period are conspicuous by their absence in the 'little bit (two Inches wide) of ivory' upon which dear Jane worked with 'so Fine a brush'. Post-colonial critics, however, have sensitised readers to the traces of context on…

  • Law’scorpus delicti

    Open AccessWilliam P Macneil, William MacNeilARTICLELaw and Critique1998Cited by: 3References: 7

  • Enjoy Your Rights! Three Cases from the Postcolonial Commonwealth

    William P MacneilARTICLEPublic Culture1997Cited by: 1

    Research Article| September 01 1997 Enjoy Your Rights! Three Cases from the Postcolonial Commonwealth William P. MacNeil William P. MacNeil Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 377–393. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9-3-377 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …

  • Living on

    Open AccessWilliam P MacneilARTICLELaw and Critique1995Cited by: 1References: 8