Ballakrishen on Kanoon's Sarange: Goodrich and the Non-Minor Jurisprudences of Law and Love @ssballakrishnen @UCILaw @Law_Cult_Huma

Swethaa Ballakrishnen, University of California, Irvine, School of Law; Harvard University, Center on the Legala Profession, is publishing Kanoon’s Sarange: Goodrich and the Non-Minor Jurisprudences of Law and Love in Law, Culture and the Humanities (2024). Here is the abstract.

This article uses three main global visual sites—the popular Korean drama Hometown Cha Cha Cha (2021), the Hindi-English movie, The Lunchbox (2013), and the British-American television series Ted Lasso (2020–2023) to engage with two main strains of Peter Goodrich's scholarship: the interconnectedness between law, justice, and love; and the role of minor jurisprudences. Heeding Goodrich's advice to consider media as an important node for legal analysis, it traces the course of aromantic amity and asexual kinship across these sites to deliberate new ways of considering the law's liberal commitments to conjugality and dyadic partnership. By focusing on popular scripts seemingly unrelated to the law, I seek to both contemplate on new pulses in contemporary cultures and the tools they might offer to consider the literature on law and love. Kanoon is the word in Hindi for law and Sarange is the word in Korean for love. Translated loosely—and, intentionally with flaws and gaps in logic—as Law's Love. To the extent we can reparatively imagine law from the perspective of these cultural prompts, I suggest that they offer new alterities from heteropatriarchy and utopic possibilities beyond the liberal queer rights regime.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.