By Professor Ben Golder

Books

Golder B, 2015, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press

Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, 2009, Foucault`s Law, Routledge, Oxon

Book Chapters

Golder B, 2026, 'Foucault, Normativity, and the Genealogy of Law', in Foucauldian Mind, pp. 516 - 526, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003370970-48

Golder B, 2025, 'Critical legal studies', in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education, pp. 105 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035302932.ch30

Golder B, 2023, 'Governmentality and the subject of rights', in Handbook on Governmentality, Edward Elgar, pp. 221 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839108662.00021

Fitzpatrick P; Pahuja S; Joyce R; Birrell K; Golder B, 2021, 'A training in conduct', in Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities, pp. 75 - 88

Golder B, 2021, 'Critical humanities and the human of international human rights law', in Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities, pp. 148 - 156

Golder B, 2021, 'Human rights: Challenging universality', in Routledge Handbook of Law and Society, pp. 146 - 149

Golder B; Steel A; Nehme M; Vines P, 2019, 'Legal Education Research As an Imperative', in Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow, Routledge, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429426070

Golder B, 2018, 'Human Rights Trouble? Judith Butler and the Performative Refusal of Human Rights', in Schippers B (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 25 - 45

Golder BJ, 2017, 'On the Varieties of Universalism in Human Rights Discourse', in Agha P (ed.), Human Rights Between Law and Politics The Margin of Appreciation in Post-national Contexts, Hart Pub Limited

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

Golder BJ, 2017, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', in Desautels-Stein J; Tomlins C (ed.), Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought, Cambridge University Press, pp. 80 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316584361.005

Golder BJ, 2016, 'Theorizing Human Rights', in Hoffman F; Orford A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 684 - 700

Golder BJ; Michaelsen C, 2014, 'Political Criminals, Terrorists, and Extra-Criminal Regimes of Punishment', in Jenkins F; Nolan M; Rubenstein K (ed.), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, pp. 267 - 290, http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/law/jurisprudence/allegiance-and-identity-globalised-world?format=HB

Golder BJ, 2012, 'Re-reading Foucault on Law, Power and Rights', in Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights, Routledge

Golder BJ, 2012, 'The Distribution of Death: Notes Towards a Biopolitical Theory of Criminal Law', in Stone M; Wall IR; Douzinas C (ed.), New Critical Legal Thinking: Law, Politics and the Political, Routledge, UK, pp. 91 - 111

Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, 2010, 'The Laws of Michel Foucault', in Golder B; Fitzpatrick P (ed.), Foucault and Law, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, Surry, England, pp. xi - xxvi, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9780754628668&lang=cy-gb

Golder B; Williams G, 2008, 'What is "Terrorism"? Problems of Legal Definition', in Malleswari VB (ed.), Anti-Terrorism Laws: Global Scenario, ICFAI Amicus Books, Hyderabad, pp. 1 - 37

Golder BJ, 2004, '"It forced me to open more than I could bear": HAD, Paedophilia, and the Discursive Limits of the Male Heterosexual Body', in Kenyon AT; Rush P (ed.), An Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 53 - 72

Edited Books

Golder B, (ed.), 2019, Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow, Routledge, https://www.crcpress.com/Imperatives-for-Legal-Education-Research-Then-Now-and-Tomorrow/Golder-Nehme-Steel-Vines/p/book/9781138387805

McLoughlin DP; Golder B, (ed.), 2017, The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age, routledge

Golder BJ, (ed.), 2013, Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights, Routledge, London and N.Y.

Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, (ed.), 2010, Foucault and Law, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, Surry, England, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9780754628668&lang=cy-gb

Journal articles

Golder B, 2025, 'The Politics of Legal Form: An Essay on Subjunctive Jurisprudence', Australian Feminist Law Journal, 51, pp. 27 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2025.2486935

Golder B, 2024, 'Killing Time: Law Like Death', Law Culture and the Humanities, 20, pp. 475 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872120969196

Golder B, 2023, 'International Law and the Politics of Genealogy', Global Intellectual History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2183881

Golder B, 2022, 'The politics of judicial imagination', Jurisprudence, 13, pp. 275 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2022.2088747

Golder B, 2021, 'In the present state of things', London Review of International Law, 9, pp. 421 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrab022

Golder B; Ramshaw S, 2021, 'Introduction: Reflection on/as Supplement', Law and Critique, 32, pp. 237 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-021-09306-x

Golder B, 2021, 'Critiquing Human Rights', Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 12, pp. 226 - 238

Golder B, 2021, 'From the Crisis of Critique to the Critique of Crisis', University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law, 92, pp. 1065 - 1078, https://lawreview.colorado.edu/printed/volume92/from-the-crisis-of-critique-to-the-critique-of-crisis/

Golder B, 2021, 'How to do things with Foucault (legally)', International Journal of Law in Context, 17, pp. 44 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744552321000203

Golder B; Hush A; Jefferies R; Johns F; Nolan J, 2021, 'Foreword', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27, pp. 399 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2022.2039056

Golder B, 2021, 'The morals of the market: Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism', Contemporary Political Theory, 20, pp. 32 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00383-8

Dehm J; Golder B; Whyte J, 2020, 'Introduction: 'Redistributive Human Rights?' symposium', London Review of International Law, 8, pp. 225 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraa018

Golder B, 2020, 'In Memoriam: Peter Fitzpatrick (1 November 1941—20 May 2020)', Law and Critique, 31, pp. 229 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-020-09283-7

Golder B, 2019, 'Thinking Human Rights Through Metaphor', Law and Literature, 31, pp. 301 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2018.1558756

Golder B, 2019, 'The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon', Foucault Studies, pp. 102 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i26.5757

Golder B, 2019, 'Human rights and the care of the self', Contemporary Political Theory, 18, pp. 42 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00292-x

Golder B, 2018, 'On the Stakes of Legal Performativity', Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 43

Golder BJ, 2016, 'On the Genealogy of Human Rights: An Essay on Nostalgia Nostalgia', Australian Journal of Human Rights

Golder BJ, 2014, 'Beyond Redemption?: Problematizing the Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', London Review of International Law, 2, pp. 77 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lru001

Golder BJ, 2013, 'Foucault, Rights and Freedom', International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26, pp. 5 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9259-8

Golder BJ, 2013, 'The Responsibility to Protect: Practice, Genealogy, Biopolitics', London Review of International Law, 1, pp. 158 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrt001

Golder B, 2012, 'Magnus Hornqvist, Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2010)', International Journal of Law in Context, 8, pp. 535 - 537

Golder B, 2012, 'Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault. By Magnus Hörnqvist, Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. vii + 177 pp. ISBN 0-415-54768-7 £75.00 hardback', International Journal of Law in Context, 8, pp. 535 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552312000407

Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law', MODERN LAW REVIEW, 74, pp. 639 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.00865-2.x

Golder BJ, 2011, 'Foucault`s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', Social and Legal Studies, 20, pp. 283 - 312

Golder BJ, 2011, 'Human Rights Contra Critique: Preliminary Notes on the Politics of Interpretation', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 17, pp. 185 - 214

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