Shane Chalmers

Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2020  |  Index Journal

When the Anglo-Australian artist, Samuel Thomas Gill, died in Melbourne in 1880, he left behind one of the most telling archives o..

The Mythology of International Rule-of-Law Promotion

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2019  |  Law & Social Inquiry

In 1992 Peter Fitzpatrick published The Mythology of Modern Law, a work that exposed the constitutive relation between Europe's ra..

Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law

S Chalmers

Book  |  2018

The Beginning of Human Rights: The Ritual of the Preamble to Law

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2018  |  Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development

There is something distinctly ritualistic about the Preamble in international human rights instruments: in its repetitiveness both..

The Visual Force of Justice in the Making of Liberia

Shane Chalmers

Book Chapter  |  2018

This essay is concerned with a particular image - that of "Liberia" - and a particular history - the "making of Liberia". My inten..

Civil Death in the Dominion of Freedom: Liberia and the Logic of Capital

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2017  |  Law and Critique

This paper is concerned with how a particular logic informed the articulation of ‘Liberia’ from its conception as an idea of liber..

Law’s Imaginary Life on the Ground: Scenes of the Rule of Law in Liberia

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2015  |  Law and Literature

This paper is concerned with “what takes place in the rule of law,” a question I consider here through an examination of what is t..

Securing the Rule of Law through UN Peace Operations

Shane Chalmers, J Farrall

Journal article  |  2014  |  Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online

In this article, we examine how the tension between justice and force informs the efforts of the United Nations (UN) to promote th..