Margaret Davies

Bio: Margaret Davies is an academic researcher from Flinders University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of law & Leptodactylidae. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 81 publications receiving 1170 citations. Previous affiliations of Margaret Davies include University of Adelaide & University of Wollongong.

Asking the law question

Abstract: Asking the law question common law theory positivism and natural law legal service critical legal studies feminism post-modernism and deconstruction. (Part contents).

Species-groups within the Australopapuan hulid frog genus Litoria Tschudi

Abstract: The Australopapuan hylid frog genus Litoria Tschudi has been redefined on the basis of a suite of osteological, myological and external characters. The grouping of species according to the presence or absence of other characters has resulted in the recognition of 37 infrageneric units of closely related species termed 'species-groups', These groups and the number of constituent species are: adelaidensis (1), albolabris (1), angiana (1), arfakiana (3), aruensis (5), aurea (7), becki (6), bicolor (7), booroolongensis (1), brevipalmata (1), bulmeri (1), caerulea (2), citropa (4), coplandi (1), dorsalis (4), dorsivena (1), eucnemis (2) , ewingi (4), freycineti (2) , infrafrenata (2), jeudei (1), latopalmata (31, lesueuri (1), leucova (1), louisiadensis (1), maculata (2), meiriana (1), nannotis (3), napaea (1), nigrofrenata (2), nigropunctata (3), peroni (5), prora (1), quadrilineata (1), rubella (6), thesaurensis (3), vagabunda (1). For each group the principal definitive characters are listed, together with abbreviated synopses of biological and geographical data. The species-groups represent three major categories: A, terrestrial species with elongate, unwebbed fingers, long hindlimbs and small, pigmented eggs; B, arboreal species with moderately to fully webbed fingers, shorter legs and small, pigmented eggs; C, scansorial and arboreal montane species with slightly to moderately webbed fingers, variable leg lengths and large, unpigmented eggs. These categories correlate with geographic distribution and probably represent separate phyletic lineages. Category A is almost exclusive to Australia; category B is almost equally distributed at lowland elevations in Australia and New Guinea, and category C is almost exclusive to New Guinea.

Law Unlimited : Materialism, Pluralism, and Legal Theory

Abstract: This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory – what is law? However, instead of attempting to define and limit law, the aim of the book is to unlimit law, to take the idea of law beyond its conventionally accepted boundaries into the material and plural domains of an interconnected human and nonhuman world. Against the backdrop of analytical jurisprudence, the book draws theoretical connections and continuities between different experiences, spheres, and modalities of law. Taking up the many forms of critical and socio-legal thought, it presents a broad challenge to legal essentialism and abstraction, as well as an important contribution to more general normative theory. Reading, crystallising, and extending themes that have emerged in legal thought over the past century, this book is the culmination of the author’s 25 years of engagement with legal theory. Its bold attempt to forge a thoroughly contemporary approach to law will be of enormous value to those with interests in legal and socio-legal theory.

Are Persons Property?: Legal Debates About Property and Personality

Abstract: Persons as property - legal and philosophical debates from dominium to "thin air" - concepts of property the nature of legal personality - its history and its incidents sex, reproduction and the self-proprietor personality and property at the end of life - the will and the corpse intellectual property in the person owning the building blocks of life persons beyond property?

Queer Property, Queer Persons: Self-Ownership and Beyond:

Abstract: The primary focus of this article is the relationship between property and personality with reference to the specific form of transgression offered by queer theory, that is, transgression of the conventional boundaries of sexual identity and desire. Feminists have strongly challenged the gendered nature of personal relations expressed through property - the association of masculinity with the position of proprietor and femininity with the position of object of property, which in its turn relies upon a fixed opposition between subject and object. It is argued here that attention to certain aspects of queer theory and praxis offers a further ground of critique and the potential for reconfiguration of these fundamental relationships.

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

Two Treatises of Government.

Abstract: All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives

Abstract: Introduction - after the science question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits science - two views why \"physics\" is a bad model for physics. Part 2 Epistemology: what is feminist epistemology \"strong objectivity\" and socially situated knowledge feminist epistemology in and after the enlightenment. Part 3 \"Others\": \"...and race?\" - the science question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - science in the first and third worlds \"real science\" thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives reinventing ourselves as other Conclusion - what is a feminist science.

The amphibian tree of life

Abstract: The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and tradition. A new taxonomy of living amphibians is proposed to correct the deficiencies of the old one. This new taxonomy is based on the largest phylogenetic analysis of living Amphibia so far accomplished. We combined the comparative anatomical character evidence of Haas (2003) with DNA sequences from the mitochondrial transcription unit H1 (12S and 16S ribosomal RNA and tRNAValine genes, ≈ 2,400 bp of mitochondrial sequences) and the nuclear genes histone H3, rhodopsin, tyrosinase, and seven in absentia, and the large ribosomal subunit 28S (≈ 2,300 bp of nuclear sequences; ca. 1.8 million base pairs; x = 3.7 kb/terminal). The dataset includes 532 terminals sampled from 522 species representative of the global diversity of amphibians as well as seven of the closest living relatives of amphibians for outgroup comparisons. The...