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19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 6 of 6: ‘It’s not all contracts and Non-Disclosure Agreements!’: The reality of BDSM Intimacy and Contract Law

By Tahlia-Rose Virdee| 2024-07-19T14:10:57+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: agency, BDSM, consent, consent negotiation documents, contract, kink, law, life|0 Comments

Tahlia-Rose Virdee ‘Page three, Section 15.20: “The Submissive shall submit to any sexual activity demanded by the Dominant, and shall do so without hesitation or argument.”’ The Submissive’s Contract Scene, Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) The myth of legally binding contracts for BDSM (Bondage, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) has been propagated by the [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 5 of 6: For love and for money: Encounters with au pair contracts

By Angela Kintominas| 2024-07-19T14:06:58+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: au pairs, contract, employment, European Agreement, family, household, law, life, status, temporary migrants|0 Comments

Angela Kintominas Classic contract law theory often assumes a foundational difference between ‘status’ and ‘contract’.[1] This echoes the wider ‘hostile worlds’[2] thesis that there is (or should be) a watertight commodity frontier separating what is done for money and what is done for love, and the related presumption against an intention to create binding contractual [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 4 of 6: Serco, outsourcing contracts and the reproduction of neoliberalism

By Frances Flanagan| 2024-07-19T14:02:52+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: contract, indifference, law, life, neo-liberalism, outsourcing, public services, re-shaping the state, Serco|0 Comments

Frances Flanagan How should we make sense of the tenacity of the idea that basic public services should be provided by private actors via contract? It is not popular with the public. It has not engendered government that 'works better' and 'costs less'. Stories of failure, unaccountability, public de-skilling, economic waste, social harm and cost-shunting [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 3 of 6: No-Harm Contracting

By David J Carter| 2024-07-19T13:55:38+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: contract, humanistic, law, life, no-harm, relational contracts, safety contract, suicide prevention, therapeutic|0 Comments

David J Carter Content Warning: This post discusses suicide and self-harm. If this raises distressing issues, support is available. Contact one of the services in your country listed on this website. There is value in attending to the ‘jurisprudential wisdom’ that quietly shapes our world. This phrase is given to us by Gillian Rose (1947-1995), [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 2 of 6: Consent & its Discontents

By Shevaun Wright| 2024-07-19T12:27:32+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: artist, colonial legacies, consent, contract, fiction, law, life, structural discrimination, subjectivity|0 Comments

Shevaun Wright As an artist, lawyer, consumer, iPhone user, friend, daughter, sister, secret-keeper, sexual participant, voter and employee, contracts have permeated my life. The contract comes in many forms –– oral or written, enforceable or non-binding, consented to or never read. Since learning about social contract theory in jurisprudence, contracts have struck me as [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 1 of 6: Should contract law theory think outside of the marketplace? Gunther Teubner thinks so.

By Renata Grossi| 2024-07-19T13:55:53+00:00 July 19th, 2024|Categories: current series|Tags: economic discourse, law, life, relational contract theory, Remove term: contract; life; law; theory; economic discourse; Teubner; relational contract theory contract, Teubner, theory|0 Comments

Renata Grossi Contracts are everywhere. In this series we encounter them doing the work traditionally associated with governments (Flanagan), family (Kintominas), mental health care (Carter), consent during sex (Verdee), and in visual art conversations (Wright). Each of these contexts individually challenges the idea that a contract is or should be understood exclusively as an economic [...]

5 06, 2023

Lost for Words: Performing Verbatim Court Transcripts

By Benjamin Thorne and Sean Mulcahy| 2023-06-05T08:24:15+00:00 June 5th, 2023|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: court transcripts, law, performance|0 Comments

Dr Benjamin Thorne, Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School & Dr Sean Mulcahy, Research Officer, Gender, Law and Drugs Program, La Trobe University Arts, particularly performance, have been used as mode of enquiry, analysis, empowerment, healing, and agency to explore law. Law and performance is a rich but complex terrain of research, and for this [...]