James Gilchrist Stewart, "The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies: Law, Politics, Culture "
English | ISBN: 1399515314 | 2024 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1399515314 | 2024 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to address what CLS was, how it came about, and what its legacy means for contemporary legal theories.
Taking a CLS approach to CLS, a range of legal, literary, filmic, and philosophical lenses are applied to key theorists and their works, with a specific focus on Duncan Kennedy. Through this analysis, a dominant type of CLS is untangled, and in true Crit form, repeatedly questioned from different perspectives to see what it achieved.
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