Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications

Dr Daniel McLoughlin

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4449
Position	Lecturer
Email	daniel.mcloughlin@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4344
Building	Ligertwood Building
Floor/Room	3 12
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Law School

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Biography/ Background

Daniel is a Lecturer in the Adelaide Law School. He holds undergraduate degrees in history and law from Macquarie University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of New South Wales. His doctoral thesis was titled Agamben's Exception: Sovereignty, Ontology and the Politics of Crisis. His areas of research and teaching interest are legal theory and public law.

Qualifications

BaLLB (Hons) (Macquarie), PhD (UNSW)

Teaching Interests

Legal Philosophy

Public Law

Foundations of Law

Human Rights

Research Interests

Legal theory and Public Law. In particular: contemporary continental philosophy of law; the concept of sovereignty and the relationship between law and state; human rights; the phenomenon of political crisis including emergency powers, civil war, and resistance/revolution.

Publications

Refereed Publications

‘The Sacred and the Unspeakable: Giorgio Agamben’s Ontological Politics’ Theory and Event 13:2, 2010.

‘Crisis, Modernity, Authority: Carl Schmitt on Order and the State’ Australian Feminist Law Journal 31, December 2009, p.135-52.

‘“In Force Without Significance”: Kantian Nihilism and Agamben’s Critique of Law’ Law and Critique 20:3, 2009, p. 245-257

‘The Politics of Caesura: Giorgio Agamben on Law and Language’ Law and Critique 20:2, 2009, p. 163-176.

Book Reviews

Thanos Zartaloudis, Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism, (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010), reviewed in Modern Law Review (forthcoming).

'The Nomos of the Modern': Sociology and the Culture of Exception’: Diken, B. and Laustsen, C. B. The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp, (Routledge: London and New York, 2005) reviewed in 4:3 borderlands, 2005.

Invited Contributions

‘Carl Schmitt’, ‘Communicability’, ‘Experience’, ‘Threshold’, ‘Voice’, Aristotle,’ entries for the Giorgio Agamben Dictionary, (eds) A. Murray and J. Whyte (forthcoming).

Edited Journals

‘Form of Life: Ontology and Politics in the work of Giorgio Agamben’, Homo Sacer 10th Anniversary Symposium, 13:1 Theory and Event, 2010. Co-editors Introduction.

Entry last updated: Friday, 2 Mar 2012

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