Finnegans Wake and confession, in both secular and religious contexts, are each examined through the lens of the other. The aim is to ‘de-confuse’ the fusion, thrice repeated in the Wake, of ‘confession’ and ‘confusion’. Eight observations are illustrated through close reading: i) confession directs the text in two chapters, Shem’s in I.7 and HCE’s in II.3; ii) both present as public not private confessions; iii) there is no auricular confession; iv) widespread inadvertent confessions found in the Wake’s ‘fallen’ language, supposedly Freudian slips, are a source of sense-making power; v) any confession is always a qualified confession – blame is always dispersed; vi) there is no torture leading to involuntary confession; vii) the book doesn’t operate within the tradition of classical confessional texts; viii) it knows that confession split Christianity and projects that split onto the dialectical operations of the narrative. The chapter argues for the productive and overlooked potential of ‘syntagmatic’ or narrative approaches that read the text as sequential form, and it suggests that the plurality of narratives undermines theoretical generalizations of the human as ‘a confessing animal’.

Ecocriticism is catching up with James Joyce. Moving beyond the heritage of Romanticism’s binary opposition between human and nonhuman nature, contemporary critics have explored the entanglement of nature, culture, and the built environment in Joyce’s works. This chapter focuses on Joyce’s evolving presentation of the human body as a natural–cultural entity. His early fictions depict the body as a humbling counterweight to notions of transcendence, especially to Catholic ideas glorifying the spirit. The evolution of his thinking culminates in his portrayal of the body, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as a site of constant transformation, where the human and the nonhuman interpenetrate and shape each other. An influential concept of material ecocriticism is Stacy Alaimo’s ‘trans-corporeality’, which reveals the interlinkage and imbrication of our bodies with each other and ‘more-than-human nature’. Thus, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, even biologically dead bodies of the solar system intersect the characters’ lives, through both their material environments and the senses, microbes, and atoms of their bodies.

This chapter examines how linking school assignment to students’ residential addresses via geographic attendance boundaries drives inequities in public education. Because “perceived” (but not actual) school quality is capitalized into home values, property value concerns encourage segregation and exclusion, a phenomenon I describe as “education NIMBYism.” I argue that the overrepresentation of homeowners in local school board elections creates problematic political incentives for office holders, in contrast with Fischel’s “homevoter hypothesis” predicting that the political influence of homeowners makes government work better and more efficiently. I also show how the capitalization of school quality into home values can create unintended consequences and offset efforts to improve the lowest-performing schools.

This chapter presents an alternative to legal personhood and the rights of nature as the means to better include animals within the scope of legal justice. It offers the Principle of Multispecies Legality as not merely an account of animals’ legal subjectivity but of the legal subjectivity of all those beings and entities that have – or that we might, as a democratic society, choose to recognise as having – interests. The PML holds that interests-bearing entitles one to recognition as a subject of the law, with the capacity to take legal action and have one’s interests considered impartially. In rejecting sentience as the grounds of animals’ politico-legal inclusion, the PML’s account of legal subjectivity provides for animals alongside existing sentient and non-sentient legal subjects, like humans and corporations. It also leaves the door open for other valuable entities that currently lack legal subjecthood, such as plants, fungi, bodies of water, and ecosystems. The chapter argues that the inclusivity of the PML is beneficial not only for animals and other non-human entities but also for those humans whose legal subjectivity remains tenuous under existing personhood paradigms.

The aim of this chapter is to gain a deeper understanding of the subject of rights, legal personality andrights of petition in international law in the run-up to the inclusion of rights of petition to the ECtHR in the ECHR. The analysis shows that there was a nascent debate on whether international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) could acquire legal personality and file complaints on behalf of victims of injury at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague but the extension of legal personality to corporations and the grant ofrights of petition to individual persons was not part of that debate. However,corporations had historically enjoyed legal personality in civil and common law systems. Thelegal persona was a mask or legal fiction to facilitate ownership and transfer of property by groups of individuals and corporations. The analysis suggests that the malleability of the fictitious ’legal persona’accommodated a multiplicity of political conceptions of the nature and aims of the corporation, facilitating the inclusion of legal persons as subjects of rights in A1P1.

In order to be effective mathematics educators, teachers need more than content knowledge: they need to be able to make mathematics comprehensible and accessible to their students. Teaching Key Concepts in the Australian Mathematics Curriculum Years 7 to 10 ensures that pre-service and practising teachers in Australia have the tools and resources required to teach lower secondary mathematics.

By simplifying the underlying concepts of mathematics, this book equips teachers to design and deliver mathematics lessons at the lower secondary level. The text provides a variety of practical activities and teaching ideas that translate the latest version of the Australian Curriculum into classroom practice. It covers the challenges of middle year mathematics, including the current decline in student numeracy, as well as complex theories which teachers can struggle to explain clearly. Topics include number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability. Whether educators have recently studied more complicated mathematics or are teaching out of field, they are supported to recall ideas and concepts that they may have forgotten – or that may not have been made explicit in their own education.

Authored by experienced classroom educators and academics, this book is a vital resource for pre-service and practising Years 7 to 10 mathematics teachers, regardless of their backgrounds and experiences.

The chapter generally explores the role, function and regulation of private agents in professional tennis and contrasts similar issues as they arise in other sports in a variety of jurisdictions. The chapter starts off setting out agency in tennis in its particular context. It then goes on to ascertain the background to sports agents in general and tennis agents in particular. Attention is paid to the types and roles of agents in professional tennis, as well as their regulation by the key transnational tennis actors, in addition to their regulation by domestic and transnational rules. The chapter further explores the various contractual agreements between professional tennis players and agents and attempts to set out the law on player–agent contracts. In addition, it sets out a framework concerning the legal issues arising from player–agent relations in professional tennis

This chapter examines the sort of happiness Aquinas thinks we can have on earth without any special divine help, namely, natural imperfect happiness. After establishing the varieties of natural imperfect happiness Aquinas accepts, it argues that, according to Aquinas, happiness is constituted exclusively by engaging in and enjoying those genuinely good activities that are made possible through the purely natural development of one’s powers. This is the Enjoying Good Activities Reading as applied to ordinary earthly happiness. The chapter then explains the various roles that everyday goods play in happiness so understood. Because of the role those goods play, it turns out that this sort of happiness is somewhat fragile. After giving an account of just how fragile it is, the chapter ends by considering Aquinas’s understanding of degrees of natural imperfect happiness.

Chapter 6 delves into the heart of Deutsche Bank’s transformation towards a US investment bank. It situates the changes of Deutsche’s business model within its play of catch with US banks: To compete in Eurodollar markets, German banks had to find a way to institutionalise their connections to US money markets to improve their access to USD. The attempts to adopt liability management (LM) drove Deutsche’s partial uprooting from its home market to relocate to the US. This challenges the dominant narrative of a US imposition, instead recognising that the trajectory of change was driven by Deutsche’s strategies of extroversion. Tracing the specific practices of Deutsche’s foreign acquisitions and strategies on US money markets, this chapter reveals that Deutsche had to progressively change its traditional practices to accommodate the imperatives of LM. This transformation went from a change in funding strategies to acquire more USD to the corresponding adaptations on Deutsche’s asset side – from corporate loans to US residential mortgage-backed – or ‘toxic’ – securities. This chapter thus presents Deutsche’s move away from the centre of Germany Inc. towards a US investment bank as an outcome of the imperatives of extroverted financialisation.

Chapter Two presents an abbreviated history of judicial review, divided into six time periods. It documents four previous revolutions in constitutional law. The history suggests that future revolutions are almost inevitable. The chapter highlights two broad trends that are supported by empirical data. First, the Supreme Court shifted its primary focus from private law to public law between the late nineteenth century and the mid twentieth century. Second, the type of law that the Court applies to decide public law cases has changed. In the nineteenth century, the Court applied a mix of international law, statutes, and common law – but rarely constitutional law – to decide public law cases. By applying types of law other than constitutional law, the Court was engaging in weak judicial review. Since the Warren Court era, the Court has consistently applied constitutional law in more than 50 percent of public law cases. Application of constitutional law typically involves strong judicial review. When the Court applies constitutional law to decide public law cases, Congress cannot override Supreme Court decisions involving major public policy controversies.