LAWS 1000 Lecture 2: Law week 2.docx
19 Oct 2014
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Law week 2: critical legal studies, emerges in 1970s, mainly left academics, critical of mainstream legal field and doctrinal approach to law , law was being used as a tool of elites any theory of law that excluded particular groups or interest was ignoring reality , cross between marxist and legal realist explicitly political, kellman the purpose of cls is to reveal the fundamental, show law"s indeterminacy (cannot cover all situations, highly controversial mvt corrupting students and cynical, advantages move beyond context looks to assumptions on which law is based, challenges status quo (individualism, weaknesses no consistent direction as to what should be done; if law is only politics by another name" then no stability, calculability or predictability (miss law"s power, main question what is the context in which law exists and how do the current assumptions/ foundations in law and the legal field create or maintain inequalities in society? , feminist approaches.
