The politics of law : a progressive critique /
The politics of law : a progressive critique /
edited by David Kairys.
- Third edition.
- ix, 738 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Traditional Jurisprudence and Legal Education -- The History of Mainstream Legal Thought -- Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy -- Selected Issues and Fields of Law -- Politics and Procedure -- Going to Court: Access, Autonomy, and the Contradictions of Liberal Legality -- Gay Rights and Identity Imitation: Issues in the Ethics of Representation -- Health Law -- Environmental Law -- Freedom of Speech -- The Indivisible Framework of International Human Rights: Bringing It Home -- Property -- The Stakes of Intellectual Property Law -- Law and Race in Early America -- Antidiscrimination Law from 1954 to 1989: Uncertainty, Contradiction, Rationalization, Denial -- Race and Affirmative Action: A Critical Race Perspective -- Women's Subordination and the Role of Law -- A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Law and Politics -- Crime and Punishment in the United States: Myths, Realities, and Possibilities -- Two Systems of Criminal Justice -- Police Practices -- Torts -- The Rise and Early Progressive Critique of Objective Causation -- Contract Law as Ideology -- Contract Versus Politics in Corporation Doctrine -- Critical Theory and Labor Relations Law -- Welfare and Legal Entitlements: The Social Roots of Poverty -- The Political Tilt of Separation of Powers -- Redistribution and the Takings Clause -- Progressive Approaches to the Law -- Some Critical Theories of Law and Their Critics -- Language and the Law: Literature, Narrative, and Legal Theory -- The Radical Tradition in the Law -- The Sex of Law -- The Role of Law in Progressive Politics -- Contributors -- Index and Table of Cases. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Pt. III. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
0465059597 9780465059591
97046000
Political questions and judicial power--United States
Justice, Administration of--United States
Judicial process--United States
Law--Political aspects
KF8700 / .P65 1998
347.73
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Traditional Jurisprudence and Legal Education -- The History of Mainstream Legal Thought -- Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy -- Selected Issues and Fields of Law -- Politics and Procedure -- Going to Court: Access, Autonomy, and the Contradictions of Liberal Legality -- Gay Rights and Identity Imitation: Issues in the Ethics of Representation -- Health Law -- Environmental Law -- Freedom of Speech -- The Indivisible Framework of International Human Rights: Bringing It Home -- Property -- The Stakes of Intellectual Property Law -- Law and Race in Early America -- Antidiscrimination Law from 1954 to 1989: Uncertainty, Contradiction, Rationalization, Denial -- Race and Affirmative Action: A Critical Race Perspective -- Women's Subordination and the Role of Law -- A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Law and Politics -- Crime and Punishment in the United States: Myths, Realities, and Possibilities -- Two Systems of Criminal Justice -- Police Practices -- Torts -- The Rise and Early Progressive Critique of Objective Causation -- Contract Law as Ideology -- Contract Versus Politics in Corporation Doctrine -- Critical Theory and Labor Relations Law -- Welfare and Legal Entitlements: The Social Roots of Poverty -- The Political Tilt of Separation of Powers -- Redistribution and the Takings Clause -- Progressive Approaches to the Law -- Some Critical Theories of Law and Their Critics -- Language and the Law: Literature, Narrative, and Legal Theory -- The Radical Tradition in the Law -- The Sex of Law -- The Role of Law in Progressive Politics -- Contributors -- Index and Table of Cases. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Pt. III. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
0465059597 9780465059591
97046000
Political questions and judicial power--United States
Justice, Administration of--United States
Judicial process--United States
Law--Political aspects
KF8700 / .P65 1998
347.73