Professor Markus Dubber cited in Artforum

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Author Stuart Schrader on policing and COVID-19 ("The Harm or Law") quoted research by Faculty of Law Professor and Centre for Ethics director, Markus D. Dubber:

"We don’t use the term household exactly the same way today. Now, we tend to use a word with Greek roots to mean roughly the same thing: economy. Thus, as the legal scholar Markus D. Dubber has suggested (quoting Blackstone, who codified these ideas in 1769), 'Policing meant governing the state as a household for the sake of its ‘public police and economy.’ If the concept of the household implied the existence of a householder or patriarch, in contemporary usage economy—without police attached to it—disavows any sense of who governs the economy, and how, or why."

Read the full article at Artforum