| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) |
| Series |
Critical America |
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Critical America.
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| Contents |
The outsiders vs. the empire -- The empire -- Empire scholarship : what are they protecting? -- The greening of faculty, students, and law review -- "CLS is dead as a doornail" -- Critical race scholarship -- Can voice and truth coexist? -- The abyss of legal scholarship -- Comments and conclusions |
| Summary |
Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most significant development since the emergence of the casebook, at the turn of the century, this trend has unleashed a fierce political struggle. At stake is nothing less than the entire enterprise of law and education, and thus a powerful platform from which to shape society. The result, here vividly recounted by Arthur Austin, has been an uncompromising, take-no-prisoners fight for dominance. The challenge comes from Outsiders, a collection of feminists, critical race theorists, and critical legal studies scholars who rely on unconventional methods such as storytelling to give voice to the underrepresented. In the other, demographically larger camp resides the monolithic Empire, consisting of traditionalists who, having developed an effective form of scholarship, now circle the wagons against the outsider heathens. Neither partisan nor objective, Austin is both respectful and critical of each faction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Critical legal studies -- United States
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Legal Education.
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Critical legal studies
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Law -- Study and teaching
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Juridische opleiding.
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585022968 |
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9780585022963 |
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9780814706503 |
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0814706509 |
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9780814706510 |
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0814706517 |
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9780814705155 |
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0814705154 |
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