Critical Legal Studies
The Legal History of Critical Legal Studies
This section provides an overview of Critical Legal Studies
Critical Legal Studies and Comparative Constitutional Law
In relation to the critical legal studies and comparative constitutional law, Maxim Bönnemann and Laura Jung[1] made the following observation: This entry deals with the productive clash between Critical Legal Studies (‘CLS’) and comparative law, and its constitutional branch more specifically. Due to this clash, a number of discourses within comparative law came up—mostly concerning topics previously marginalized. CLS is a movement which has questioned and undermined central ideas of legal thought, namely objectivism and formalism, and suggested to put another conception of law in their place (Unger 1). The critique of formalism, ie a form of legal justification that contrasts with open-ended (…)
Critical Legal Studies
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on critical legal studies explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
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Further Reading
- The entry “critical legal studies” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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Notes and References
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Maxim Bönnemann, Laura Jung, “Critical Legal Studies and Comparative Constitutional Law” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)
See Also
- Constitutional interpretation
- Constitutional processes
- Constitutional Principles
- Constitutional Objectives
- Comparative constitutional law
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See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Critical Legal Studies in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Critical Legal Studies in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
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