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Mapping The Culture Wars: American Legal Cultural Studies Now, Katie Rose Pryal

Katie Rose Guest Pryal

This article draws connections between cultural studies and legal studies in U.S. legal practice and theory. In the United States, scholars in both cultural studies and legal studies have bridged the academic divide between the two disciplines. Legal scholars have broadened the scope of the work that counts as legal scholarship, pushing into the realm of the cultural. At the same time, culturalcritics have been drawn to the powerful, practical aspects of the law, to the promise the law makes to those wishing to engage in cultural work for social change. This intersection of social power and textual interpretation has …