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The Empty Tomb: Post-Critical Legal Hermeneutics, Peter Goodrich
The Empty Tomb: Post-Critical Legal Hermeneutics, Peter Goodrich
Nevada Law Journal
There is nothing more refreshing than a successful failure. A momentary flaring of flamboyance. A near miss. Fifteen weeks as media monarchs; a good part—a small part—of a decade as a political threat to the order of the academy, if not the stability of the system. The affective bonds and the institutional disruption of youthful and latterly not-so-young dissidents and socialist sympathizers within the law schools definitely had their excitements, their impetus and novelties, and then they grew old, got rejected, disappeared into the shadows, backrooms, and faculty lounges. The various histories assign different figures to the failure of critical …
Psychotherapeutic Practice As A Model For Postmodern Legal Theory, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Psychotherapeutic Practice As A Model For Postmodern Legal Theory, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Scholarly Works
Critical legal theory is in need of reconstruction and rehabilitation. By most accounts, the goal of critical legal theory is to reveal the deep structure of the legal system that remains unrecognized in, and even obscured by, the self-understanding of legal actors. Scholars traditionally moved beyond the superficial level of legal doctrine either by adopting a rationalistic orientation and analyzing legal concepts or by adopting an empiricist orientation and analyzing the economic and sociological features of legal institutions. However, during the past thirty years there has been a tremendous diversification in these critical approaches. For example, the critical legal studies …
Between Truth And Provocation: Reclaiming Reason In American Legal Scholarship, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Between Truth And Provocation: Reclaiming Reason In American Legal Scholarship, Francis J. Mootz Iii
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Truth has regained a strong voice in American legal scholarship. Like a groggy patient slowly emerging from a traumatic operation, legal theory is being coaxed back to consciousness by Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry. They are fighting the debilitating illness of radical multiculturalism and its attendant relativism; they proclaim that the cure can be found in the power of truth, the force or reason, and the integrity of the word. Unfortunately, the patient is unlikely to recover while in the care of Farber and Sherry, even though their operation must be judged a success on its own terms. By equating …