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Dr Daniel McLoughlin
Senior Lecturer

Dr Daniel McLoughlin

Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Daniel is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from UNSW and a Bachelor of Arts/Law from Macquarie University.  Daniel is a legal theorist working in the critical and continental traditions of thought. He has published on sovereignty, political ontology, government, and political crises, with a particular emphasis on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Carl Schmitt. His other research interests include Marxist state theory, the politics and theory of human rights, public law theory (in particular popular sovereignty and constituent power), and the impact of neo-liberalism on the state. He is currently completing a book manuscript on Agamben's legal and political thought.
Phone
57621
E-mail
Daniel.McLoughlin@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    McLoughlin D; Hurzeler T, 2021, 'Marx on the Factory Acts: Law, exploitation, and class struggle', in ozsu U; O’Connell P (ed.), Research Handbook of Law and Marxism, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 21 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788119863.00008
    Book Chapters | 2017
    McLoughlin D, 2017, 'Giorgio Agamben on security, government and the crisis of law', in Agamben and Law, pp. 113 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315097497
    Book Chapters | 2017
    McLoughlin D, 2017, 'In Force without significance: Kantian Nihilism and Agamben's critique of law', in Agamben and Law, pp. 415 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315097497
    Book Chapters | 2017
    McLoughlin DP; golder B, 2017, 'An Introduction to the Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age', in Golder B; McLoughlin D (ed.), The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age, Routledge, pp. 1 - 15
    Book Chapters | 2016
    McLoughlin DP, 2016, 'Liturgical Labour: AGamben on the Post-Fordist Spectacle', in Agamben and Radical Politics, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 91 - 114
  • Edited Books | 2017
    McLoughlin DP; Golder B, (ed.), 2017, The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age, routledge
    Edited Books | 2016
    McLoughlin D, (ed.), 2016, Agamben and Radical Politics, Edinburgh University Press, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/agamben-and-radical-politics/EDB768C81EA6237B6861B74F23C03D60
  • Journal articles | 2020
    McLoughlin D, 2020, 'Sacrifice and Desubjectivation: The Revolutionary Subject in Bataille and the very early Agamben', Etica e Politica/Ethics and Politics, vol. 3, pp. 169 - 194, http://www2.units.it/etica/2020_3/McLOUGHLIN.pdf
    Journal articles | 2019
    McLoughlin D, 2019, 'Interview with Vicki Kirby', Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 36, pp. 261 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276419868288
    Journal articles | 2019
    McLoughlin D, 2019, 'The biopolitics of the Buribunks: the digital archive and the end of history', Griffith Law Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2019.1670605
    Journal articles | 2016
    McLoughlin D, 2016, 'Post-Marxism and the Politics of Human Rights: Lefort, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière', Law and Critique, vol. 27, pp. 303 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-016-9177-0
    Journal articles | 2016
    McLoughlin D, 2016, 'The fiction of sovereignty and the real state of exception: Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Carl Schmitt', Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol. 12, pp. 509 - 528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872112469863
    Journal articles | 2015
    McLoughlin D, 2015, 'On political and economic theology', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 20, pp. 53 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096630
    Journal articles | 2014
    Mcloughlin D, 2014, 'Rethinking Agamben: Ontology and the Coming Politics: Abbott, Mathew. 2014. The figure of this world: Agamben and the question of political ontology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Whyte, Jessica. 2013. Catastrophe and Redemption: the political thought of Giorgio Agamben. New York: SUNY Press', Law and Critique, vol. 25, pp. 319 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-014-9143-7
    Journal articles | 2013
    McLoughlin D, 2013, 'A tale of two Schmitts: Authority, administration and the responsibility to protect', London Review of International Law, vol. 1, pp. 141 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrt003
    Journal articles | 2013
    McLoughlin D, 2013, 'FROM voice to infancy giorgio agamben on the existence of language', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 18, pp. 149 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2013.869017
    Journal articles | 2012
    McLoughlin DP, 2012, 'Giorgio Agamben on security, government and the crisis of law', Griffith Law Review, vol. 21, pp. 680 - 707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2012.10854758
    Journal articles | 2011
    McLoughlin D, 2011, 'Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism by Thanos Zartaloudis', The Modern Law Review, vol. 74, pp. 487 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.856-3.x
    Journal articles | 2010
    Bailey R; McLoughlin D; Whyte J, 2010, 'Editors' Introduction: Form-of-Life: Giorgio Agamben, Ontology and Politics', Theory & Event, vol. 13, pp. online - online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.0.0122
    Journal articles | 2010
    Mcloughlin DP, 2010, 'The Sacred and the Unspeakable: Giorgio Agamben's Ontological politics', Theory and Event, vol. 12, pp. online - online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.0.0118
    Journal articles | 2009
    Mcloughlin DP, 2009, 'Crisis, Modernity, Authority: Carl Schmitt on ORder and the State', Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 31, pp. 135 - 152
    Journal articles | 2009
    Mcloughlin DP, 2009, 'In Force Without Significance: Kantian Nihilism and Agamben's Critique of Law', Law and Critique, vol. 20, pp. 245 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-009-9047-0
    Journal articles | 2009
    Mcloughlin DP, 2009, 'The politics of caesura: Giorgio Agamben on language and the law', Law and Critique, vol. 20, pp. 163 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-009-9047-0
    Journal articles | 2006
    Mcloughlin DP, 2006, '`The Nomos of the Modern`: Sociology and the Culture of Exception', Borderlands e-journal, vol. 4 No. 3
  • Other | 2017
    McLoughlin DP, 2017, Giorgio Agamben
    Theses / Dissertations | 2011
    Mcloughlin DP, 2011, Agamben's exception: sovereignty, ontology and the politics of crisis, UNSW, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/50285

My Research Supervision

Sonia Qadir         Law and (In)security: (En)Counter-ing Terror in the Postcolony

Angela Smith      The Role of Aviation in Underwriting Deportation Practices between the European Union and North Africa

Amrita Tarr          The Economy of Faith: Production of Mogul's and Paupers

Christian Ponce Terrazas  Constitutional Interpretation and the Foreign Law Debate

Kimberly White   Broken Covenants and Vagrant Promises: Civil Religion and Social Movements in the Post-Sixties American Novel (secondary supervisor) 

My Teaching

LAWS 2820/JURD 7222    Law and Social Theory

LAWS 3442/JURD 7492    The Will of the People: Law, Popular Sovereignty, and Revolutionary Politics