Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book distinguishes itself from positivist legal theory, most strands of traditional philosophy of law, but also from most forms of by now more or less normalised sociolegal or critical legal theory. It engages with supradisciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, anticipating and perhaps even shaping in this way future developments of current legal theory. Finally, the book begins with a critical overview of law/theory combinations, and focuses on the English educational legal system and its repercussions for legal theoretical thinking, they bring in the figure of the artisan as the one who critically practices theory.