‘I am Iraq’<br>Law, life and violence in the formation of the Iraqi state

This paper investigates how law, life and violence combined to reconfigure sovereignty in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent rise of the insurgency. It considers how legal practices, including justifications for military intervention, neoliberal democratic governance, states of emergency a...

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Published in:	Utrecht Law Review
Main Author:	Perveen Ali
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Utrecht University School of Law 2011-04-01
Subjects:	sovereignty biopolitics Iraq war critical legal geography state of exception state formation
Online Access:	http://www.utrechtlawreview.org/articles/10.18352/ulr.159/