| Description |
197 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Critical legal studies: introduction / Peter Fitzpatrick and Alan Hunt -- The critique of law: what is 'critical' about critical legal theory? / Alan Hunt -- The critical resources of established jurisprudence / Paul Hirst and Phil Jones -- On the deconstruction of jurisprudence: Fin(n)is philosophiae / Costas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington -- Dworkin; which Dworkin? Taking feminism seriously / Anne Bottomley, Susie Gibson and Belinda Meteyard -- Beyond the public / private division: law, power and the family / Nikolas Rose -- Power, property and the law of trusts: a partial agenda for critical legal scholarship / Roger Cotterrell -- The decline of privacy in private law / Hugh Collins -- Critical criminal law / David Nelken -- Racism and the innocence of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- Women in confinement: can labour law deliver the goods? / Joanne Conaghan and Louise Chudleigh -- The conceptual foundations of modern company law / Paddy Ireland, Ian Grigg-Spall and Dave Kelly -- New directions in European Community law / Francis Snyder -- Critical legal education in Britain / Alan Thomson |
| Summary |
Critical legal studies is one of the most challenging developments in the contemporary study of law. Drawing heavily on the radical political culture of the period since the 1960s, critical legal studies assents the necessity of a politics of law - a politics which sees law, not as something apart, but as engaged in the multitude of arguments, battles and struggles which produce the human condition. Such a committment decisively rejects the dominant tradition of Anglo-American legal scholarship, the expository orthodoxy or, more crudely, the 'black-letter law' approach. The essays in this book provide the first wide ranging exploration of the aims and scope of critical legal studies in Britain. They draw on a diversity of intellectual traditions, including feminism, Marxism, critical theory and deconstruction and explore the implications of the critical approach for important areas such as property, contract, company, and labour law |
| Analysis |
Law Theories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Critical legal studies -- Great Britain.
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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| Author |
Fitzpatrick, Peter, 1941-
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Hunt, Alan, 1949-
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| LC no. |
87010336 |
| ISBN |
0631157182 |
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