What does the law really do?: A Critical Legal Studies Primer
What is the role of the law? What do rights do? What do they mean?
Karl Marx warned us that legal rights are not always to be trusted. His reasoning was simple: that legal rights often perpetuate systems of exploitation and bolster the status quo. But somehow, one hundred and fifty years later, we continue to believe in them.
This lengthy academic essay looks at the role of rights through the lens of the Critical Legal Studies movement. Writing in the 70s and 80s, these scholars found that the law diffuses power in surprising and often unpredictable ways - but rarely is a sinister force at work.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on April 20th, 2008
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