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The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies: Law, Politics, Culture


ISBN13: 9781399515313
Published: June 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £85.00



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A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement An intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement

  • In-depth analysis on the spaces, people, and places that made CLS
  • Understanding the continuing power of CLS through its haunting of contemporary legal theories
  • Multi-lens analysis of key CLS texts

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.

The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies argues that CLS haunts the legal landscape, constricting emerging critiques of law. While the personal hierarchies of the Movement’s founders ensured CLS was also limited.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence
Contents:
List of Figures
Preface – How do you solve a problem like Critical Legal Studies?
Chapter One – Reimagining Critical Legal Studies
Chapter Two – Untangling CLS
Chapter Three – Death on the Books
Chapter Four – Searching for Death
Chapter Five – Theoretical Ghosts and Spectres
Chapter Six – The Haunting of Critical Legal Studies
Chapter Seven – Navigating US-CLS
Chapter Eight – American Gods