Polygamy's Rights and Wrongs: Perspectives on Harm, Family and Law

Gillian Calder & Lori G. Beaman (eds.)(University of Victoria, University of Ottawa). Polygamy's Rights and Wrongs (UBC Press, 2014).

"Assumptions about the harmful nature of polygamy have left little room for debate, the monogamy coming to represent a hallmark of advanced societies, and polygamy the immoral alternative. Yet in this volume, eleven scholars ask whether this condemnation is justified by examining, among other perspectives, the lived experiences of polygamous families. In essays that fearlessly face difficult questions of choice, dignity, and love, the authors seek to complicate a conversation that is more often simplified."
—Polygamy's Rights and Wrongs book jacket

The End(s) of Community: History, Sorvereignty, and the Question of Law

Joshua Ben David Nichols (University of Victoria).  The End(s) of Community: History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013).

"This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law.  In this tradition, the character of the "sovereign" or "lawgiver" has provided the solution to this problem.  But how does the sovereign acquire the right to found law?  As soon as we ask this question we are immediately confronted with a convoluted combination of jurisprudence and theology."
—The End(s) of Community book jacket