Postmodern Legal Movements

Postmodern Legal Movements
Author: Gary Minda
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814761011

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A wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of modern legal scholarship and the evolution of law in America What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter century, the study and practice of law have been profoundly influenced by a number of powerful new movements; academics and activists alike are rethinking the interaction between law and society, focusing more on the tangible effects of law on human lives than on its procedural elements. In this wide-ranging and comprehensive volume, Gary Minda surveys the current state of legal scholarship and activism, providing an indispensable guide to the evolution of law in America.

American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism

American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism
Author: Stephen M. Feldman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2000-01-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190283165

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The intellectual development of American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly form the nation's founding through today. Stephen Feldman traces this development through the lens of broader intellectual movements and in this work applies the concepts of premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism to legal thought, using examples or significant cases from Supreme Court history. Comprehensive and accessible, this single volume provides an overview of the evolution of American legal thought up to the present.

Postmodern Philosophy and Law

Postmodern Philosophy and Law
Author: Douglas E. Litowitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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The author presents a two-tiered analysis that views postmodern legal thought as both a collective intellectual movement, and as the work of particular theorists, notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Francois Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. He concludes that even though postmodern thought does not give rise to a normative theory of right that can be used as a framework for deciding cases, it can focus attention on genealogy and discourse, and can empower those who have been denied a voice in the legal system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Postmodern Legal Feminism

Postmodern Legal Feminism
Author: Mary Joe Frug
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1992
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780415906203

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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence
Author: Robert L. Hayman
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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This text presents cutting edge contemporary materials, as well as new chapters on Natural Law, Positivism, Gay Legal Rights and Critical Lawyering. The book offers comprehensive coverage of legal theory from traditional to current movements, including new materials on Legal Formalism, Legal Process, Latino Critical, and Queer Critical Theory. Also contains extensive readings and updated and amplified notes, questions, problems, and bibliographies.

Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies

Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies
Author: Costas Douzinas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134883579

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This timely and assured book provides a unique guide to critical legal studies which is one of the most exciting developments within contemporary jurisprudence. It is the first book to systematically apply a critical philosophy to the substance of common law. The book develops a coruscating and interdisciplinary overview of the politics and cultural significance of the institutions of the law.

Law and the Postmodern Mind

Law and the Postmodern Mind
Author: Peter Goodrich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1998-03-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780472108411

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Explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law

Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Raymond Wacks
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191510645

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The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, and judges. Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy with clarity and enthusiasm, providing an enlightening guide to the central questions of legal theory. In this revised edition Wacks makes a number of updates including new material on legal realism, changes to the approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updates to historical and anthropological jurisprudence. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Delimiting the Law

Delimiting the Law
Author: Margaret Jane Davies
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1996
Genre: Critical legal studies
ISBN: 9780745307695

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"Most modern legal theorists seek to limit their enquiries to a particular sort of law, on the assumption that law is necessarily restricted in its interactions with other social practices. margaret Davies deliberately - and provocatively - questions the usefulness of such 'positivist' dogmas, asserting that the law can and should be seen as multi-dimensional. Davies argues that the law is everywhere - in metaphysics, the social environment, language and the psyche. In a persuasive meeting of postmodern discourse, deconstruction, feminism and legal theory, Davies creates new ways of thinking about the law by creating links with other practices and disciplines where none previously existed. This is a powerful critique of the ideology and theory of law in the West, providing a much-needed link between conventional legal philosophy and modern movements in legal theory." --From back cover

Law, Lawyers and Race

Law, Lawyers and Race
Author: Mathias Möschel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317811518

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Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars. Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States to Europe endeavours to fill this gap by providing an overview of the definition and consequences of CRT developed in American scholarship and describing its transplantation and application in the continental European context. The CRT approach adopted in this book illustrates the reasons why the relationship between race and law in European civil law jurisdictions is far from anodyne. Law plays a critical role in the construction, subordination and discrimination against racial minorities in Europe, making it comparable, albeit in slightly different ways, to the American experience of racial discrimination. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Roma and anti-Black racism constitute a fundamental factor, often tacitly accepted, in the relationship between law and race in Europe. Consequently, the broadly shared anti-race and anti-racist position is problematic because it acts to the detriment of victims of racism while privileging the White, Christian, male majority. This book is an original exploration of the relationship between law and race. As such it crosses the disciplinary divide, furthering both legal scholarship and research in Race and Ethnicity Studies.