«Is it possible for there to be a legal system in force which does not provide for sanctions or which does not authorize their enforcement by force?»
– Joseph Raz

Selected texts by the research group

Björk, M. Life Outside Life: The Politics of Immortality, 1914-1945 (Gothenburg: Gothenburg University Press, 2018).

Svenungsson, J. (2017). “Law and Liberation: Critical Notes on Agamben’s Political Messianism”. European Judaism 50, 68–77.

Noll, G. (2017). “What moves law? Martti Koskenniemi and transcendence in international law” in Werner, W, de Hoon, M & Galan, A (eds), The Law of International Lawyers. Reading Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge University Press. 21-38

Johansen, T. "Minor law: Notes towards a revolutionary jurisprudence" in States of exception : law, history, theory / edited by Cosmin Cercel, Gian Giacomo Fusco and Simon Lavis., 73-9, 2020

A few key references

Agamben, Giorgio. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms-of-Life, Stanford University Press (2013)

Badiou, Alain. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Stanford University Press (2003)

Benjamin, Walter. “Zur Kritik der Gewalt”, Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften und Sozialpolitik (1921)

Blanton, Ward and de Vries, Hent. Paul and the Philosophers, Fordham University Press (2013)

Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang. Staat, Gesellschaft, Freiheit, Suhrkamp (1976)

Kelsen, Hans. What is justice?: justice, law and politics in the mirror of science : collected essays, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley (1957)

Loick, Daniel. A Critique of Sovereignty, Rowman& Littlefield International (2018)

Markus, R. Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989)

Schmitt, Carl. Politische Theologie. Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souveränität, Duncker & Humblot (1922)

Schmitt, Carl. Politische Theologie II. Die Legende von der Erledigung jeder Politischen Theologie, Duncker & Humblot (1970)

Taubes, Jacob. The Political Theology of Paul, Stanford University Press (2004)