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This page intentionally left blank LAW AND NATURE This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between concep- tions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focusesonthepoliticsandpragmaticsofnaturetalkasexpressedinboth extralegaldisputesandtheirtransformationandtranslationintoformsof legaldiscourse(tort,property,contract,administrativelaw,criminallaw, and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific political- legaldisputesandarguments. Thesetconsistsofaseriesofcontextsand cases organized around a conventional distinction between “external” and “internal” nature: forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biologicaldefensesincriminalcases,andinvoluntarymedicationofin- mates.Hedemonstratesthroughoutthatnearlyanyconstrualof“nature” entailsaninterpretationofwhatitistobe(distinctively)human. DAVID DELANEY isVisitingAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentof Law,Jurisprudence,andSocialThoughtatAmherstCollege. Hispubli- cationsincludeRace,PlaceandtheLaw(1998)andTheLegalGeographies Reader(co-editor,withNicholasBlomleyandRichardFord,2001). He has also written many articles exploring the intersection of legal and geographicalscholarship. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY Cambridge Studies in Law and Society aims to publish the best scholarly workonlegaldiscourseandpracticeinitssocialandinstitutionalcon- texts,combiningtheoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch. Thefieldsthatitcoversarestudiesoflawinaction;thesociologyof law;theanthropologyoflaw;culturalstudiesoflaw,includingtheroleof legaldiscoursesinsocialformations;lawandeconomics;lawandpolitics; andstudiesofgovernance.Thebooksconsiderallformsoflegaldiscourse acrosssocieties,ratherthanbeinglimitedtolawyers’discoursesalone. The series editors come from a range of disciplines: academic law; socio-legalstudies;sociologyandanthropology.Allhavebeenactively involvedinteachingandwritingaboutlawincontext. SeriesEditors ChrisArup VictoriaUniversity,Melbourne MartinChanock LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne PatO’Malley CarletonUniversity,Ottawa SallyEngleMerry WellesleyCollege,Massachusetts SusanSilbey MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology BooksintheSeries ThePoliticsofTruthandReconciliationinSouthAfrica LegitimizingthePost-ApartheidState RichardA.Wilson 0521802199hardback 0521001943paperback ModernismandtheGroundsofLaw PeterFitzpatrick 0521802229hardback 0521002532paperback UnemploymentandGovernment GenealogiesoftheSocial WilliamWalters 0521643333hardback AutonomyandEthnicity NegotiatingCompetingClaimsinMulti–EthnicStates YashGhai 0521781124hardback 0521786428paperback ConstitutingDemocracy Law,GlobalismandSouthAfrica’sPoliticalReconstruction HeinzKlug 0521781132hardback 0521786436paperback TheNewWorldTradeOrganizationAgreements GlobalizingLawthroughServicesandIntellectualProperty ChristopherArup 0521773555hardback TheRitualofRightsinJapan Law,Society,andHealthPolicy EricA.Feldman 0521770408hardback 0521779642paperback TheInventionofthePassport Surveillance,CitizenshipandtheState JohnTorpey 0521632498hardback 0521634938paperback GoverningMorals ASocialHistoryofMoralRegulation AlanHunt 0521640717hardback 0521646898paperback TheColoniesofLaw Colonialism,ZionismandLawinEarlyMandatePalestine RonenShamir 0521631831hardback LAW AND NATURE David Delaney Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521831260 © David Delaney 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 - isbn-13 978-0-511-07146-1 eBook (EBL) - isbn-10 0-511-07146-9 eBook (EBL) - isbn-13 978-0-521-83126-0 hardback - isbn-10 0-521-83126-1 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ForAustin, friend,scholar,example, withmuchappreciation
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