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Dr

Shane Chalmers

Mckenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr

Shane Chalmers

 
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Law
 
Primary Interest
Continental philosophy
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Dr

Shane Chalmers

 

Shane joined the Melbourne Law School in 2018 as a McKenzie Research Fellow. Before that he was a Teaching Fellow in the Melbourne JD (2017), an Australian Endeavour Research Fellow at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2016), and a doctoral scholar at the Australian National University (2012-2016).Shane works at the intersection of law and cultural studies, crossing disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, history, literary and visual studies, and sociology.

His published research has contributed knowledge of the rule of law, legal pluralism, law and development, property theory, international law and human rights, aesthetic studies of law (literary and visual), and the philosophy of law. Central to all of his research, and teaching, is a concern with imperialism and social justice. Shane has published widely in leading international journals, including Law, Culture and the Humanities, Law and Critique, Law & Social Inquiry, Social & Legal Studies, Humanity, and Law & Literature. He is author of Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor with Sundhya Pahuja of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities.

Projects

Displaying the most recent project by Shane Chalmers.

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Democratising The Rule Of Law: A Socio-Cultural Re-Evaluation Of An Institutional Ideal

2018 - 2021
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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 7 most recent scholarly works by Shane Chalmers.

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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..

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

S Chalmers

Book  |  2018

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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..

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

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2018  |  Humanity

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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..

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

Shane Chalmers

Journal article  |  2015  |  Law & 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..

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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..

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Law
Justice and the Law

Credentials

Positions

Mckenzie Postdoctoral Fellow

Law

Affiliate

Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School

Member

Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand

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Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

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Socio-Legal Network, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

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Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

The Australian National University

Master of Laws in Comparative Law

McGill University

Bachelor of Laws with Honours

Adelaide University

Bachelor of International Studies

Adelaide University

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