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