Shane Chalmers 博士
助理教授
博士，澳大利亞國立大學，2016年
碩士，麥吉爾大學，2011年
法學士（榮譽），阿德萊德大學，2010年
國際研究學士，阿德萊德大學，2007年
Biography
Dr. Shane Chalmers於2023年作為助理教授加入香港大學法律學院。他是法律與人文學科的學者，專注於歐洲殖民主義對當今法律和社會遺產的批判研究。他的研究成果涉及法律與殖民主義、法律與發展以及批判法律理論等領域。此外，他還是澳大拉西亞法律、文學和人文學會的長期會員，目前擔任副主席。
Shane是「Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law」（《利比里亞與法律辯證法：批判理論、多元主義與法治》）（Routledge，2018）一書的作者。該書基於他的博士論文，研究了利比里亞的法律形態，從十九世紀自由觀念的概念，到二十世紀共和國的建立，再到二十一世紀初在國際干預下建立基於法治的國家的戰後重建。該書對利比里亞法律形態的形成及其對當今利比里亞和其他國際發展背景下的法律和正義的影響作出了批判性的理解。
Shane目前正撰寫第二部專著「The Antipodes: A Carnivalesque Jurisprudence of a Settler Colonial Imaginary‘（《反地球：定居殖民地想像中的狂歡式司法學》），探討了塑造十九世紀澳大利亞殖民地化的法律想像。該書揭示了這種想像如何通過財產、尊嚴和主權等形式剝奪、非人化和削弱第一民族；並旨在撼動這些法律形式，使其重新想像。為此，該書提出了一種新型的司法學——狂歡式司法學——運用巴赫汀式的小丑、傻子和流氓形象來審視和呈現殖民法律想像，用具有批判性和生成力的笑聲表達。
自加入香港大學後，Shane的研究開始關注帝國想像如何維持英屬東亞和東南亞殖民地法律的權威，以及當地藝術家在這種想像中的顛覆行為如何破壞英國殖民者的法律權威。
Shane 還是「The Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities」（Routledge, 2021）的編輯（與 Sundhya Pahuja 合作）；目前，他正在與 Desmond Manderson 合作編輯一本關於“殖民法律想像|南方文學未來”的論文集。
Publications
Monographs
- Shane Chalmers, Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2018)
Edited volumes
- Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021)
Refereed articles
- Shane Chalmers, “Metaphoric Sovereignty and the Australian Settler Colonial State”, Law Text Culture, vol 26 (2022): 36-57
- Shane Chalmers, “The Utopian Law and Literature of Systematic Colonisation”, Law & Literature, online (2022)
- Shane Chalmers, “The Festival as Constitutional Event and as Jurisdictional Encounter: Colonial Victoria and the Independent Order of Black Fellows”, Griffith Law Review, vol 30, no 4 (2021): 557-577
- Shane Chalmers, “Native Dignity”, Griffith Law Review, vol 29, no 2 (2020): 175-198
- Shane Chalmers, “Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law”, Index, vol 2 (2020): 83-104
- Shane Chalmers, “Terra Nullius? Temporal Legal Pluralism in an Australian Colony”, Social & Legal Studies, vol 29, no 4 (2020, online 2019): 463-485
- Shane Chalmers, “The Mythology of International Rule-of-Law Promotion”, Law & Social Inquiry, vol 44, no 4 (2019): 957-986
- Shane Chalmers, “Negative Mythology”, Law and Critique, vol 31, no 1 (2020, online 2019): 59-72
- Shane Chalmers, “The Chameleon Subject: Representation, Law, and the Problem of Living Dead”, Law, Culture and the Humanities, online (2018)
- Shane Chalmers, “Law’s Pluralism: Getting to the Heart of the Rule of Law”, Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol 17, no 2 (2021, online 2017): 280-301
- Shane Chalmers, “Civil Death in the Dominion of Freedom: Liberia and the Logic of Capital”, Law and Critique, vol 28, no 2 (2017): 145-165
- Shane Chalmers, “The Beginning of Human Rights: The Ritual of the Preamble to Law”, Humanity, vol 9, no 1 (2018, online 2015): 107-125
- Shane Chalmers, “Law’s Imaginary Life on the Ground: Scenes of the Rule of Law in Liberia”, Law and Literature, vol 27, no 2 (2015): 179-198
- Shane Chalmers and Jeremy Farrall, “Securing the Rule of Law through UN Peace Operations”, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, vol 18 (2014): 217-248
Book chapters
- Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja, “The Inequity of Development: Reading the World Bank’s Turn to Inequality”, in Antony Anghie, et al (eds), Handbook of Third World Approaches to International Law (Edward Elgar) [accepted]
- Shane Chalmers, “A Mitologia da Promoção Internacional do Rule of Law”, in Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin (ed), Direito e Desenvolvimento em Tradução (FGV Press) [in press]
- Shane Chalmers, “The Rule of Law and International Development”, in Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, and Sundhya Pahuja (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (OUP) [in press]
- Shane Chalmers, “Colonialism and Law”, in Jan Smits, Jaakko Husa, Madalena Narciso, and Catherine Valcke (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, 2023)
- Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja, “Practice, Craft and Ethos: Inheriting a Tradition”, in Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021)
- Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja, “(Economic) Development and the Rule of Law”, in Jens Meierhenrich and Martin Loughlin (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (CUP, 2021)
- Shane Chalmers, “The Visual Force of Justice in the Making of Liberia”, in Desmond Manderson (ed), Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, and Critique (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Book reviews
- Shane Chalmers, “Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics by Mark Fathi Massoud”, Journal of Modern African Studies, vol 60, no 3 (2022): 421-422
- Shane Chalmers, “Expressive Insurgency: Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory by Robert Nichols”, Theory & Event, vol 24, no 1 (2021): 411-414