Narrative Jurisprudence
James R. Elkins
College of Law / West Virginia University

Contemporary Jurisprudence

Toward a Postmodern Theory of Law

Critical Legal Studies

Criticial Legal Studies
Wikipedia

Critical Legal Studies: An Overview

The Politics of Law
review essay

The Real Politics of Law
review essay

Ideology as Constrain
Professor Jack Balkin's review of Andrew Altman's Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique

Law Review Articles

The Politics of Reason: Critical Legal theory and Local Social Thought
James Boyle article

Deconstruction's Legal Career
J.M. Balkin article; deconstructions introduction into the legal academy, and how it changed both law and deconstruction

Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory
J.M. Balkin article; explaining deconstruction, how it works and how it is relevant to the law and to legal theory

Tradition, Betrayal, and the Politics of Deconstruction
J.M. Balkin article; critiques the use of "tradition" to define and limit Constitutional guarantees of liberties; argues that deconstruction can be used to support many different kinds of political positions and is not necessarily progressive

CLS & Legal Education

The Anatomy of a Torts Class
James Boyle, American University [James Boyle - Wikipedia]

Articles & Essays

The Politics of Reason: Critical Legal Theory and Local Social Thought
James Boyle

Deconstruction's Legal Career
J.M. Balkin; deconstructions introduction into the legal academy, and how it changed both law and deconstruction

Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory
J.M. Balkin; explaining deconstruction, how it works and how it is relevant to the law and to legal theory

Tradition, Betrayal, and the Politics of Deconstruction
J.M. Balkin; critiques the use of "tradition" to define and limit Constitutional guarantees of liberties; argues that deconstruction can be used to support many different kinds of political positions and is not necessarily progressive

Free Speech, Language, and the Rule of Law

If Demons Are Real, They're Allergic to Neuroleptics
essay raising questions about the primitive nature of legal thinking

Critical Legal Theorists

Roberto Unger

Work of Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Unger Websource

Roberto Unger - Wikipedia

Duncan Kennedy

Harvard Faculty Profile

Duncan Kennedy - Wikipedia

Jack Balkin

Jack Balkin - Wikipedia

Courses

Critical Approaches to Law

Critique/Backlash

Law School Humbug

The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education
Professor Arthur Austin, Case Western Reserve University

Critical Theory

The Critical Project
links to web resources on critical thinking, critical pedagogy, critical composition,
and critical theory; and a mosaic of quotes from scholarly sources in the form
of an "archaeology of criticism"

Overview of Critical Theory

Critical Theory
Wikipedia

Critical Legal Studies: Relations to Other Schools of Contemporary Jurisprudence

On the historical relationship between the first group of CLS scholars and the emergence of Critical Race Theory and feminist jurisprudence see, Harlon L. Dalton, The Clouded Prism, 22 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 435 (1987); Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Legal Studies, and Legal Education or The "Fem-Crits Go to Law School", 38 J. Legal Educ. 61 (1988)

On the relationship of Critical Legal Studies and Law & Economics, see: Wayne Eastman, "Critical Legal Studies," School of Management, Rutgers University in the Encyclopedia of Law & Economics [on-line text of article] [Encyclopedia]

Feminist Jurisprudence

Feminist Legal Theory
Wikipedia

Feminist Jurisprudence: An Overview
Legal Information Institute, Cornell

Women's Legal History Biography Project

Bibliographies & Research Guides

Feminist Law and Jurisprudence

Essays & Articles

A Feminist Looks at Dworkin's Theory of Equality

Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?
CATO Institute Policy Analysis, 1996

Books

Feminist Legal Theory Foundations

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory
Wikipedia

Critical Race Theory
including a brief history of the critical race theory" movement
and the early scholars in the field

Lecture on Critical Race Theory

Bibliography & Research Guide

Critical Race Theory Resource Guide

Law and Economics

Law and Economics
Wikipedia

Encyclopedia of Law & Economics

Richard Posner at the complete review

Economics Working Papers Archives: Law and Economics
archive and distribution network for working papers
in all areas of economics

 


Traditional Jurisprudence Web Resources

Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy

Jurisprudence
Wikipedia

An Overview
Legal Information Institute, Cornell

Philosophy of Law
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Some Renowned Jurisprudential Scholars

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)] [Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia]

Hans Kelsen
Wikpedia

John Austin
Wikipedia

Legal Pragmatism

Legal Pragmatism
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Legal Realism and the Social Contract

Pragmatism
Wikipedia

Statutory Interpretation

Statutory Interpretation
Wikipedia

The Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Construction
An essay by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

Legal Positivism

Legal Positivism
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Legal Positivism
Wikipedia

Lecture Notes
basic outline of legal positivism

The Moral Dilemma of Positivism

Natural Law

Natural Law
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Natural Law
Wikipedia

Natural Law/Natural Right Page

Legal Realism

Legal Realism
Wikipedia

Legal Realism and the Social Contract
James Boyle, American University

 

 

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