This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

Wide-ranging contributors present a comprehensive look at the application of Levinasian ethics not just to our ideas about but to the day-to-day practices of the law

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors GENESIS Introduction; D.Manderson EXODUS Getting Down to Cases: Can a Levinasian Ethics Generate Norms?; D.Perpich Levinasian Ethics and the Concept of Law; J.Crowe Questions for a Reluctant Jurisprudence of Alterity; N.Smith Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law; J.Stauffer LEVITICUS Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice; R.Gibbs 'Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs': Levinas and the law of torts; D.Manderson To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the 'morality of law'; M.Diamantides NUMBERS Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law; S.Jodoin The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: 'Illegal' Immigrants Stand Over American Law; M.Failinger Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish contexts after the Shoah ; D.Glowacka DEUTERONOMY Anarchic Law; S.Critchley (with a response by D.Manderson) Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity; J.Sims Rethinking Justice with Levinas; S.Roberts-Cady Index