Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Places
5. 1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 15
6. 2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law 37
7. 3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia 62
8. 4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country 85
9. Membership
10. 5. Signs of Law 103
11. 6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding 131
12. 7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality 145
13. Religion
14. 8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 169
15. 9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus 189
16. 10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany 201
17. 11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner 225
18. Performance
19. 12. A Vigil at the End of the World 247
20. 13. Invention and Process in Bilski 258
21. 14. “Erudite Curiosity”: The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 273
22. 15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud 287
23. List of Contributors 299
24. Index 303