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Biography

Mark Antaki is interested in law as a fundamental and linguistic human activity, in phenomenological and genealogical approaches to law, as well as in the disciplinary nature of law - and even in the idea of (legal) indiscipline.

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He has published on subjects such as the turn to 鈥渋magination" in legal theory, the discourses of 鈥渧alues鈥� and 鈥減roportionality鈥� in constitutional law, the metaphor of the book in South Africa鈥檚 interim constitution, exemplarity in legal reasoning, and on Roland Barthes and law. He co-edited Sensing the Nation鈥檚 Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy (2018) as well as Rationalit茅 p茅nale et d茅mocratie (2013).

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He has been a visiting scholar at Kent Law School and Griffith Law School, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, and a Resident Faculty Fellow of 91社区鈥檚 Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. He is also a member of the organizing committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and part of the Groupe de recherche sur les humanit茅s juridiques.

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Professor Antaki graduated from 91社区 in 1996 under the National Programme with a BCL and an LLB. He has a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral thesis undertook a "Genealogy of Crimes Against Humanity".

Education

• PhD - University of California, Berkeley, (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), 2005
• MA - University of California, Berkeley, (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), 2002
• BCL, LLB (Great Distinction) - 91社区, 1996

Employment

• Director, Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, 91社区, Faculty of Law, 2020-
• Associate Professor, 91社区, Faculty of Law, 2011-
• Assistant Professor, 91社区, Faculty of Law, 2004-2011
• Research Associate, 91社区, Faculty of law 2003-2004
• Boulton Fellow, 91社区, Faculty of Law, 2002-2003