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Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory 2nd ed

Edited by Emilios Christodoulidis · Ruth Dukes · Marco Goldoni
Coming Soon Edward Elgar Publishing Available November 2026

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ISBN-13
9781035354009
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
November 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This thoroughly revised second edition presents an overview of the developing field of critical legal theory. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Research Handbook includes new chapters covering law and technology, international law and human rights.

Demonstrating how different legal fields can be observed through a critical lens, contributors showcase the richness and multiplicity of critical legal methods, adopting feminist, Marxist and critical race theories. They also propose an array of conceptual and normative instruments for analysing how the law interacts with other forces, including technology, finance and military power. Chapters on topics such as property law, corporate law and international economic law have been substantially updated in light of shifting historical conditions and ongoing social transformation.

This up-to-date Handbook is an essential resource for law scholars and students, especially those in law and development, law and society, legal philosophy and legal theory, who are interested in adopting a critical theoretical approach. It also provides invaluable insights for lawyers at a time when the scale of issues faced by legal orders is dramatically expanding.

Table of Contents

PART I
1.
Critical theory and the law: reflections on origins, trajectories and conjunctures 2
Emilios Christodoulidis
2.
Critical legal realism in a nutshell 25
Dennis M. Davis and Karl Klare

PART II
3.
Critical legal feminisms 42
Rosemary Hunter
4.
Critical race theory 59
Mathias Möschel
5.
Queer in the law: critique and postcritique 75
Mariano Croce
6.
Marxism and the political economy of law 90
Emilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni
7.
Critical theory of the state 108
Bob Jessop
8.
Law and the public/private distinction 127
Scott Veitch
9.
Critical legal theory: rhetoric, semiotics, synaesthetics 142
Peter Goodrich
10.
Law and deconstruction 158
Johan van der Walt
11.
The ethical turn in critical legal thought 172
Louis E. Wolcher
12.
The responsibilities of the critic: law, politics and the Critical Legal Conference 192
Costas Douzinas
13.
Law in the mirror of critique: a report to an academy 207
Kyle McGee

PART III
14.
Property law 228
Paddy Ireland
15.
Ideology and argument construction in contract law 250
Richard Michael Fischl
16.
A different kind of end of history for corporate law 267
Lilian Moncrieff
17.
Critical copyright law and the politics of “IP” 287
Carys J. Craig
18.
Of shopping carts and street smarts: critical approaches to law and technology 309
Katie Szilagyi
19.
Critical legal theory and human rights: brief history of an ambivalent encounter 326
Eva Nanopoulos
20.
Social rights 342
Fernando Atria and Constanza Salgado
21.
Critical labour law: then and now 358
Ruth Dukes
22.
Between persecution and reconciliation: criminal justice, legal form and human emancipation 375
Craig Reeves, Alan Norrie and Henrique Carvalho
23.
Facticity as validity: the misplaced revolutionary praxis of European law 401
Michelle Everson and Christian Joerges
24.
Critical law and development 422
Fiona Macmillan
25.
International economic law’s wreckage: depoliticization, inequality, precarity 439
Nicolás M. Perrone and David Schneiderman
26.
Can transnational law be critical? Reflections on a contested idea, field and method 467
Peer Zumbansen
27.
Critical international law amongst the ruins 489
Ntina Tzouvala
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