Critical Legal Theory

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-48673-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 1584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3129 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Law

Critical Legal Theory has conventionally been traced to the social, political, and philosophical movements of the 1960s and, before that, to the early-twentieth-century ‘realist’ critique of modern jurisprudence. In truth, however, its origins go back to classical and pre-modern thought, and to their acknowledgement of the centrality of law in attempts to conceive of the good life, or the just polity—a centrality that is, moreover, also discernible in the recent gravitation of a number of contemporary philosophers and theorists (such as Habermas, Derrida, Agamben, Luhmann, Latour) towards law.

Against the ‘restricted’ and ‘conservative’ character of modern jurisprudence, Critical Legal Theory constitutes a return to this more general interest in law and legality. Exceeding (if not exploding) the limits of jurisprudence, it has, moreover, drawn upon the most ancient and most contemporary traditions of critical thought in order to pursue new ways of understanding, living, and imagining the law.

Critical Legal Theory is now an established—if heterogeneous and controversial—field of study, represented by numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Law, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Indeed, it is a landmark collection of Critical Legal Theory’s principal sources, orientations, movements, and themes.

The first volume in the collection (‘Critical Legal Origins’) illuminates the foundations of Critical Legal Theory in contemporary continental thought, as well as providing an account of its institutional history. Volume II (‘Critical Legal Orientations’), meanwhile, examines the ways in which Critical Legal Theory has addressed and problematized conventional jurisprudential ideas about law, drawing upon the insights of philosophy, as well as other disciplines. Volume III (‘Critical Legal Movements’) assembles the best and most influential research to provide an overview of the movements that characterize the field. The scholarship assembled in the final volume (‘Critical Legal Themes’) brings together the key work to explore a range of substantial themes with which Critical Legal Theorists have engaged.

Supplemented with a full index and comprehensive introductions, newly written by the editors, which situate the collected material in the context of more general theoretical traditions, as well as in critical relation to jurisprudence, Critical Legal Theory is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douzinas, Costas

Perrin, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I: Critical Legal Origins, Volume II: Critical Legal Orientations, Volume III: Critical Legal Movements, Volume IV: Critical Legal Themes

Über Autor(innen)

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law, Pro-Vice Master for International Relations and Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. He was Head of the School of Law from 1996 to 2001 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2002 to 2006, when he founded the Institute for the Humanities. Educated in Athens, London, and Strasbourg, he has taught at the Universities of Middlesex, Lancaster, Prague, Athens, Griffith, Melbourne, and Nanjing. He has been fellow at many universities and is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Professor at the University of Athens. Costas is a founding member of the Critical Legal Conference, managing editor of Law and Critique: The International Journal of Critical Legal Thought and of the Birkbeck Law Press—a joint venture between Birkbeck College and Routledge-Cavendish. Professor Douzinas specializes in jurisprudence, political philosophy, human rights, aesthetics, and critical theory. Colin Perrin is a commissioning editor in Critical Legal Theory, Socio-Legal Studies and Criminology for Routledge-Cavendish, and is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. He has published various papers on aspects of legal theory, human and indigenous rights, postcolonial theory, and the history of the concept of ‘race’. He is also an editorial advisor for the journals Balayi: Culture, Law, Colonialism and Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy.