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Kathryn Abrams

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The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Like an abandoned fortress, the dichotomy between reason and the passions casts a long shadow over the domain of legal thought. Beset by forces from legal realism to feminist epistemology, this dichotomy no longer holds sovereign sway. Yet its structure helps to articulate the boundaries of the legal field; efforts to move in and around it infuse present thinking with the echoes of a conceptually distinct past. Early critics of the dichotomy may unwittingly have prolonged its influence through the frontal character of their attacks. By challenging a strong distinction between emotion and reason, critics kept it, paradoxically, before legal …


Complex Claimants And Reductive Moral Judgments: New Patterns In The Search For Equality, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Complex Claimants And Reductive Moral Judgments: New Patterns In The Search For Equality, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

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Critical Strategy And The Judicial Evasion Of Difference, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Critical Strategy And The Judicial Evasion Of Difference, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

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