Judicial System, United States, Critiques, Collection of essays 

"A provocative and unsettling collection of critical essays by the most original legal thinkers of our day. The Politics of Law lays bare the conflicts and power struggles that form the bones and sinew of the August body of American law..." -Cover 

Content:
Introduction -- I. Legal reasoning, traditional jurisprudence, and legal education. 1. Legal reasoning / David Kairys ; 2. The history of mainstream legal thought / Elizabeth Mensch ; 3. Legal education as training for hierarchy / Duncan Kennedy -- II. Selected fields of law and substantive issues. 4. Critical theory and labor relations law / Karl E. Klare ; 5. Race discrimination law and race in America / W. Haywood Burns ; Antidiscrimination law : a critical review / Alan D. Freeman ; 6. Perspectives on women's subordination and the role of law / Nadine Taub and Elizabeth M. Schneider ; 7. Freedom of speech / David Kairys ; 8. Contract law as ideology / Peter Gabel and Jay M. Feinman ; 9. Torts / Richard L. Abel ; 10. The doctrine of objective causation / Mortin J. Horwitz ; 11. Criminal law. The origins of crime and criminal violence / Mark Kelman ; Toward a radical criminology / William J. Chambliss ; The criminal justice system and the role of the police / David Ruduovsky ; 12. Corporations and free speech / Mark Tushnet ; 13. Legal entitlement and welfare benefits / Rand E. Rosenblatt -- III. Alternative progressive approaches. 14. New developments in legal theory / Robert W. Gordon ; 15. Toward a theory of law and patriarchy / Diane Polan ; 16. Antonio Gramsci and "legal hegemony" / Edward Greer ; 17. The radical tradition in the law / Victor Rabinowitz. 

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