@article{ref1,
title="Law and Violence",
journal="Law and literature",
year="2010",
author="Menke, Christoph",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="1-17",
abstract="The relationship between law and violence is paradoxically structured: law is the opposite of violence, since legal forms of decision-making disrupt the spell of violence generating more violence. At the same time, law is itself a kind of violence; because it imposes a judgment that determines its &quot;subject&quot; like a curse. This article reads tragedy (notably Aesychylus's Oresteia and Sophocles' King Oedipus) as articulating this paradoxical entwinement between law and violence and uses this tragic insight for a critical discussion of Benjamin's &quot;Critique of Violence.&quot;<p />",
language="",
issn="1535-685X",
doi="10.1525/lal.2010.22.1.1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/lal.2010.22.1.1"
}