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Postmodernism and Law


ISBN13: 9781855214132
ISBN: 185521413X
Published: July 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print



Part of a series on law and legal theory, this volume argues that postmodernist jurisprudence offers a new concept of legal justification. It considers that while legal practices may look similar to those of 50 years ago, the grounds for these practices have, in fact, changed.

Contents:
Postmodern perspectives and justice, Peter Murphy; feminism and pragmatism, Richard Rorty; law, music and other performing arts, J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson; postmodern temptations, Robert Post; babel - A She'ur, Richard Hyland; the problem of the subject, Pierre Schlag; objects of property and subjects of politics -intellectual property laws and democratic dialogue, Rosemary J. Coombe; postmodernism/feminism/law, Dennis Patterson; what is a postmodern constitutionalism?, M. Balkin; postmodern constitutionalism as materialism, Francis J. Mootz III; the big fear - law confronts postmodernism, Alan Hunt.