The Critical Lawyers' Handbook 2 (Law & Social Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745310877 ISBN 13: 9780745310879

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1997

Synopsis

This text focuses on some of the key legal areas which have become increasingly important in recent years; particularly race, gender, the environment and international law. Considering how critical legal studies might inform radical legal and political practice, the contributors focus on the celebration of diversity and difference that characterizes critical legal scholarship. They examine how the law supresses diversity by excluding and silencing some voices while privileging others, particularly on the grounds of gender or race. They highlight the extent to which traditional interpretations of international law ignore questions of economic and political inequality - despite the recent insistence on increasing globalization. They ask how effective the law - and the rule of the law - really are in pursuing the goals of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, and in dealing with the problems of racial and sexual inequality, ecological destruction and international instability. They promote the development of new and valuable sensitivities which focus on those dimensions of human experience often ignored, while at the same time arguing that a critical (legal) understanding of capitalism has never been more urgently needed, if the law is to have any role to play in fighting oppression.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor of Law at the University of Bristol Law School Per Laleng teaches law at the University of Kent at Canterbury and has been active in establishing Critical Lawyers' Groups nationwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0745310877
• ISBN 13: 9780745310879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Ireland Paddy, Laleng Per