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The Hidden Harm Of Law And Economics, Daniel I A Cohen
The Hidden Harm Of Law And Economics, Daniel I A Cohen
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The paper deals with the adverse psychodynamic consequences to an individual and to society, immediately and in the long run, of dissolving individual responsibility for fault as in the doctrine of Law and economics.
Thinking With Wolves: Left Legal Theory After The Right's Rise (Review Essay), Martha T. Mccluskey
Thinking With Wolves: Left Legal Theory After The Right's Rise (Review Essay), Martha T. Mccluskey
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Reviewing Wendy Brown & Janet Halley, Left Legalism/Left Critique (2001).
Left legal theory is in crisis. This crisis reflects a broader problem of contemporary U.S. politics: the lack of grand ideas capable of mobilizing meaningful opposition to the triumph of the political right. Right-wing legal theory has contributed to that dramatic political change by promoting ideas questioning the foundations of the twentieth century liberal welfare and regulatory state.
This review essay analyzes a rare recent attempt to revive left legal theory in the face of the right's triumph: the anthology Left Legalism/Left Critique edited by Wendy Brown and Janet Halley …