TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kairys,David
TI  - The politics of law: a progressive critique 
SN  - 0465059597
AV  - KF8700 .P65 1998
U1  - 347.73 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - United States
KW  - Justice, Administration of
KW  - Judicial process
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - 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
ER  -