Studies in Law, Politics, and Society: Special Issue: Revisiting Rights

by Austin Sarat

Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in the 1970s and 80s, rights were subject to extensive critique. Yet not long after that critique rights were rehabilitated by feminists and Critical Race Theorists. Today, scholars are investigating the role of rights in social movements, in legal consciousness, in organizations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848559305
• ISBN13: 9781848559301
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"