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THE CULTURAL TURNCritical Legal Studies and
Critical Legal Studies
1977 – University of Wisconsin – Madison Noted CLS theorists: Roberto Mangabeira
Unger, Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz, Duncan Kennedy, and Catharine A. MacKinnon.
British CLS movement: grew as part of a number of conferences,
especially the Critical Legal Conference and the National Critical Lawyers Group
Theoretical Roots
Critical Marxism (Lukacs, Gramsci, Sartre) and the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer and Marcuse)
Legal Realism Deconstructionism
Derrida (Literary Theory) Post-structuralism
Foucault (History)
The Vietnam War
Civil Rights Movement
Feminism/Women’s Liberation
May 1968
Postmodernism
Where is the Radical Left today?
WHERE YOU STAND DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU SIT.
American Critical Race
Theorist Law Professor Black Woman
Woman Feminist Law Professor White Mother
Man Critical Legal
Studies Theorist (for our purposes)
Law Professor Latin-American
“I just don’t remember it as being that bad”
Sense of empowerment defines relation to law.
Rights are one among many values that we hold dear.
or
Why we should not pigeonhole.
« RIGHTS »
Source de :contrôle/limiteOuprotection/liberté
Vie en Société
Tensionentre l’individu et la collectivité
Libéralisme
La Société : Un ensemble de citoyens porteurs de droits
Le rôle des droits
Inutilité vs. « Empowerment »
Les droits, ces relations sociales
La grande réconciliation…
Unger & Nedelsky : Interdependence & contextualisation
Williams & Nedelsky : Affirmation des droits comme source de justice
What does Williams’ story about renting and apartment in New York tell us about image and relationships? How does this shed light on her critique of CLS? What can Nedelsky’s argument bring to this picture?
Are rights in the U.S. and rights in Canada fundamentally different as Nedelsky suggests, or does the difference lie in how we conceive of them? What does culture have to do with the way we conceive of rights?
Williams writes that " These differences in experience between blacks and whites [...] are differences firmly rooted in race, and in the unconsciousness of racism. It is only in acknowledging this difference, however, that one can fully appreciate the underlying common ground of the radical left and the historically oppressed: the desire to heal a profound existential disillusionment."
Do you agree? Has there generally been a disconnect between the radical left's quest for social reform and the plight of the historically disempowered?
Alternative Social Charter Solution aux problèmes de
discrimination systèmique Objectif: Permettre à tous les citoyens
Canadien de participer pleinement et également à la société et d’être traîté avec respect et dignité
Dialogue de « democratic accountability »: Création d’un tribunal dont la jurisdiction serait les plaintes d’infractions systémiques