Publisher's Synopsis
This book represents a cross-section of contemporary critiques of the legal establishment -- its theoretical foundations and of its institutions and processes. Recognising that proposals for alternatives to mainstream legal theory and practice do not belong to any single discipline, Caudill and Gold selected essays by scholars in philosophy, sociology, criminology and political theory, in addition to law professors and practitioners. Recognising as well that no single perspective dominates radical legal theory, the essays exemplify the approaches associated with Marxian and Neo-Marxian analyses, American Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory, radical feminism, semiotics, liberal theology, and psychoanalytic social theory and criticism.
