Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory 2nd ed

Name: Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory 2nd ed
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035354009
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Author: Emilios Christodoulidis; Ruth Dukes; Marco Goldoni
ISBN: 9781035354009

Edited by Emilios Christodoulidis · Ruth Dukes · Marco Goldoni

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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.

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