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In Ideology and Community in the First Wave of Critical Legal Studies Richard W. Bauman presents a fresh, rigorous assessment of some of the key ideas developed by writers aligned with the early Critical Legal Studies movement. This book examines several major themes and arguments in the first decade of critical legal scholarship, predominantly in the U.S. in the period dating roughly from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Heterogeneous and progressive, the Critical Legal Studies movement inspired a variety of leftist reexaminations and critiques of dominant liberal assumptions underlying the law and legal institutions. Bauman offers an exposition and assessment of the radical challenge to several central tenets of legal and political liberalism, including the values associated with individualism, moral skepticism, and state neutrality. He maintains that radical critics associated with early critical legal studies misapprehended many of the important assumptions and commitments of contemporary political liberalism and tended to misconstrue liberalism as relying on specific, deficient metaphysical underpinnings. Although the quest therefore, might have failed, the early Critical Legal Studies movement did succeed in sharpening discussions about the politics of law and legal interpretation and in providing a stimulus to other types of radical, contemporary critique.
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• Foreword. Critical race theory and empirical methods / Osagie K. Obasogie
• Articles & essays. Critical race empiricism : a new means to measure civil procedure / Victor D. Quintanilla
• Poetry as evidence / Gregory S. Parks and Rashawn Ray
• Empirical intersectionality : a tale of two approaches / Ange-Marie Hancock
• Degradation ceremonies and the criminalization of low-income women / Kaaryn Gustafson
• Reimagining democratic inclusion : Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act / Ming Hsu Chen and Taeku Lee.

• Introduction. Critical Legal Studies: Introduction
• Critical legal studies: an introduction to its origins and underpinnings
• Introduction (Symposium on Frontiers of Legal Thought
• Critical legal
• studies: a political history
• Survey article: critical legal theory (without modifiers) in the United States. Legal Scholarship in General: Post-realist legal scholarship
• Legal scholarship: its causes and cure
• Legal scholarship in the United States: an overview
• Idols of the right: the law and economics' movement
• Law, science, and law and economics
• 'Everything old is new again': early reflections on the 'new Chicago school'
• The death of an author, by himself
• Interdisciplinary legal scholarship: the case of history-in-law. Constitutional Law Scholarship: Truth, justice and the American way: constitutional law scholarship in the 70s
• The future of constitutional law scholarship. Pedagogy: Elite efforts to restrict the supply of lawyers: a comment on the Bok Report
• Essay on clinical education
• Evaluating students as preparation for the practice of law
• An introduction (to Symposium: Academic Evaluation Focus)
• Index.
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This book collects Mark Tushnet's essays on legal scholarship and legal education written between the 1970s and the end of the twentieth century. The essays deal with the development of critical legal studies and its current state, with persistent questions about the intellectual status of legal scholarship, with interdisciplinary legal scholarship (including law and economics), and with selected topics in legal pedagogy. Taken as a whole, the essays provide a good overview of Professor Tushnet's contributions to the intellectual history of legal scholarship and education in the United States.
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• Introduction
• 1. Rights theory and rights practice
• 2. History and the development of rights
• 3. Rights of the founding
• 4. Rights and reconstruction: syntheses and shell games
• 5. Rights after World War II
• Conclusion: rights and reasons
• Bibliography.
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Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices, than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.
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• Introduction
• 1. Rights theory and rights practice
• 2. History and the development of rights
• 3. Rights of the founding
• 4. Rights and reconstruction: syntheses and shell games
• 5. Rights after World War II
• Conclusion: rights and reasons
• Bibliography.
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Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices, than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.
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• Introduction
• 1. Rights theory and rights practice
• 2. History and the development of rights
• 3. Rights of the founding
• 4. Rights and reconstruction: syntheses and shell games
• 5. Rights after World War II
• Conclusion: rights and reasons
• Bibliography.
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Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices, than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.
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• The outsiders vs. the empire
• The empire
• Empire scholarship : what are they protecting?
• The greening of faculty, students, and law review
• "cls is dead as a doornail"
• Critical race scholarship
• Can voice and truth coexist?
• The abyss of legal scholarship.

The traditionalists of legal scholarship in the USA have come under challenge from feminists, critical race theorists and critical legal-studies scholars. This volume presents a discussion of the challenge which is both respectful and critical of each faction.
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• Keynote address: Living and lawyering rebelliously / Gerald P. López
• Critical race lawyering in Tulia, Texas / Vanita Gupta
• Personal reflections on the subtleties of bias / Theodore A. McKee
• White lawyering : rethinking race, lawyer identity, and rule of law / Russell G. Pearce
• Reopening the Emmett Till case : lessons and challenges for critical race practice / Margaret M. Russell
• Four questions on critical race praxis : lessons from two young lives in Indian country / Christine Zuni Cruz
• The need for Mareva injunctions reconsidered / David Capper
• Taking history seriously : municipal liability under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 and the debate over respondeat superior / David Jacks Achtenberg.

• Part 1 Ideological stakes in adjudication: the distinction between adjudication and legislation
• ideological conflict over the definition of legal rules. Part 2 The problem of judicial legislation: the paradox of American critical legalism
• policy and coherence. Part 3 Ideology in adjudication: policy and ideology
• ideologically oriented legal work
• strategizing strategic behaviour in interpretation. Part 4 Consequences of adjudication: the moderation and empowerment effects
• the legitimation effect
• adjudication in social theory. Part 5 Post rights: rights in American legal consciousness
• the critique of rights
• conclusion - landscapes along the highway of infinite regress.
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The political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decision making is the subject of this book. It attempts to integrate the American approach to law, an uneasy balance of commitment and intense skepticism, with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy and psychology. The centre of this work is the question of how politics affects judicial activity, and how in turn lawmaking by judges affects American politics. Opposing views on whether law is political in character are considered, and the author puts forward his own theory of adjudication that includes accounts of judicial rhetoric and the experience of judging.
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• Foreword / by Angela Harris
• Introduction
• Hallmark critical race theory themes
• Legal storytelling and narrative analysis
• Looking inward
• Power and the shape of knowledge
• Critiques and responses to criticism
• Critical race theory today
• Conclusion.

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants, especially undocumented Latinos and Middle Eastern people. On a more hopeful note, the country elected and re-elected its first black president and has witnessed the impressive advance of gay rights. As a field, critical race theory has taken note of all these developments, and this primer does so as well. It not only covers a range of emerging new topics and events, it also addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little use for racial analysis and study. Critical Race Theory is essential for understanding developments in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new questions for discussion, aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective.
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For well over a decade, critical race theory - the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life - has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics to ethnic studies and history. This text is a primer on critical race theory outlining its basic parameters and tenets.
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