The Politics of Law: A Progressive CritiqueReadHowYouWant.com, 2010 M11 5 - 988 pages The Politics of Law is the most widely read critique of the nature and role of the law in American society. This revised edition continues the book's concrete focus on the major subjects and fields of law. New essays on emerging fields and the latest trends and cases have been added to updated versions of the now-classic essays from earlier editions. A unique assortment of leading scholars and practitioners in law and related disciplines - political science, economics, sociology, criminology, history, and literature - raise basic questions about law, challenging long-held ideals like the separation of law from politics, economics, religion, and culture. They address such issues contextually and with a keen historical perspective as they explain and critique the law in a broad range of areas. This third edition contains essays on all of the subjects covered in the first year of law school while continuing the book's tradition of accessibility to non-law-trained readers. Insightful and powerful, The Politics of Law makes sense of the debates about judicial restraint and the range of legal controversies so central to American public life and culture. |
Contents
THE HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM LEGAL THOUGHT | 3 |
LEGAL EDUCATION AS TRAINING FOR HIERARCHY | 60 |
SELECTED ISSUES AND FIELDS OF | 99 |
POLITICS AND PROCEDURE | 101 |
GOING TO COURT ACCESS AUTONOMY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LIBERAL LEGALITY | 134 |
GAY RIGHTS AND IDENTITY IMITATION ISSUES IN THE ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION | 166 |
HEALTH LAW | 224 |
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW | 269 |
THE INDIVISIBLE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BRINGING IT HOME | 348 |
PROPERTY | 392 |
THE STAKES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW | 425 |
LAW AND RACE IN EARLY AMERICA | 461 |
ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW FROM 1954 TO 1989 | 472 |
RACE AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A CRITICAL RACE PERSPECTIVE | 521 |
WOMENS SUBORDINATION AND THE ROLE OF LAW | 548 |
A BLACK FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW AND POLITICS | 599 |
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