Law and Nature

摘要: This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought practice. It focuses on politics pragmatics talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes their transformation translation into forms discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering connection with very idea practice American theorization. He then traces a set specific political-legal arguments. The consists series contexts cases organized around conventional distinction 'external' 'internal nature': forces nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biological defenses cases, involuntary medication inmates. demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal 'nature' entails an interpretation what it is to be (distinctively) human.