Curating a Museum of Legal Accidents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14970871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jake Goldenfein (0000-0002-0242-8559, corresponding author), Laura Petersen (0000-0003-3176-9851), Marc Trabsky (0000-0002-7123-8062) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Griffith Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1038-3441 • E-ISSN: 1839-4205 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10383441.2013.10854764 |
| OpenAlex | W2088756953 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This piece introduces the symposium issue ‘Law and Its Accidents’. The issue emerged from the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, which took place at the Melbourne Law School on 15–16 December 2011. The theme of the symposium responded to two provocations: first, the anxieties to do with accidents of technology such as that surrounding the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan in 2011; and second, Paul Virilio’s writings on curating a ‘museum of accidents’, in which he urges us to make space in our museum of technological progress for an equally important museum of the accident. The essential theme of the symposium, which we asked all authors to contemplate, was: ‘If law is a technology, then what are its accidents?’ We asked this question because we believe that in law the accident never just happens: it is embedded in the techniques, institutions and places of law
Accident (philosophy · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Theme (computing · Computer Science · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |