A Critique of Adjudication [fin de Sicle]
Title | A Critique of Adjudication [fin de Sicle] PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Kennedy |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780674039520 |
A major statement from one of the foremost legal theorists of our day, this book offers a penetrating look into the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decision making. It is also the first sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law, an uneasy balance of deep commitment and intense skepticism, with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy, and psychology. At the center of this work is the question of how politics affects judicial activity-and how, in turn, lawmaking by judges affects American politics. Duncan Kennedy considers opposing views about whether law is political in character and, if so, how. He puts forward an original, distinctive, and remarkably lucid theory of adjudication that includes accounts of both judicial rhetoric and the experience of judging. With an eye to the current state of theory, legal or otherwise, he also includes a provocative discussion of postmodernism. Ultimately concerned with the practical consequences of ideas about the law, A Critique of Adjudication explores the aspects and implications of adjudication as few books have in this century. As a comprehensive and powerfully argued statement of a critical position in modern American legal thought, it will be essential to any balanced picture of the legal, political, and cultural life of our nation.
A Critique of Adjudication : Fin de SieÌ Cle
Title | A Critique of Adjudication : Fin de SieÌ Cle PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Kennedy |
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Release | 2013 |
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A Critique of Adjudication [Fin de Sicle]
Title | A Critique of Adjudication [Fin de Sicle] PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Law |
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'A Critique of Adjudication' explores the aspects and implications of adjudication as few books have in this century. With an eye to the current state of theory, legal or otherwise, the author includes a provocative discussion of postmodernism.
Sexy Dressing Etc
Title | Sexy Dressing Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Kennedy |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1995-08-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780674802971 |
Kennedy argues that American radicalism is possible and desirable. One base for radical politics is the institutional workplace; another is popular culture (hence, sexy dressing). Kennedy's aim is to wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the earnestness of political correctness.
Legal Reasoning
Title | Legal Reasoning PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Law |
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Legal reasoning : collected essays includes four essays written over a twenty-year span that present a comprehensive and original account of legal reasoning as done by judges, lawyers, and legal academics. In a work that is likely to become the definitive introduction to critical legal theory by a leading theorist of the critical legal studies movement, the author has been the first to put together in a systematic way the insights of American legal realism with continental phenomenology and semiotics. His version of legal reasoning presents it as "work in a medium" deploying a set of "argument-bites" analogous to the words of a language. The result is simultaneous freedom and constraint. Kennedy then turns his approach to a critique of current European legal theory, with an essay on Hart and Kelsen and another on the approach of the European jurists pre-occupied with "coherence" and with the "European social model" in the current process of harmonization of European law."
Feminist Politics
Title | Feminist Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Orr |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780742547780 |
The chapters in Feminist Politics contest some of the prevailing conceptualizations of identity and difference, as well as the functions of these concepts in feminist political discourse and praxis. Doing so, they amply demonstrate that issues of identity and difference have a central place in contemporary feminist scholarship. The authors of these chapters have worked to develop new ways of understanding and living out differences that will both preserve and celebrate them while also fostering the necessary conditions for opening dialogue and forming new coalitions. These efforts intend to engender imaginative new Strategies for the personal, spiritual, and sociopolitical changes that will enable human growth, well-being, and flourishing. While the focus of the work represented here is understandably on women, the issues that are raised are given additional urgency-explicitly in some of the chapters and implicitly in others-by the situation of their concerns in the context of the world created by the Bush administration. Because that administration has foregrounded issues of identity and difference in ways that are not only inhumane and often inaccurate, but also dangerous for all of us, the new ways of thinking and acting that are proposed here have a much broader application. Thus, these chapters truly invite not only feminists but all people to move in new directions. Taken as a whole, this volume represents cutting-edge thinking from an international perspective in these important and pressing areas for feminist research and praxis. Book jacket.
An Economic Analysis of Public Law
Title | An Economic Analysis of Public Law PDF eBook |
Author | George Dellis |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-03-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1800375794 |
This original and insightful book considers the ways in which public law, which emphasises legality (the Demos), and economics, a science oriented towards the markets (the Agora), intertwine. Throughout, George Dellis argues that the concepts of legality and efficiency should not be perceived separately.