Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence at Century's End

Gary Minda

NYU Press, 1995 - Law - 350 pages

A wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of modern legal scholarship and the evolution of law in America

What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter century, the study and practice of law have been profoundly influenced by a number of powerful new movements; academics and activists alike are rethinking the interaction between law and society, focusing more on the tangible effects of law on human lives than on its procedural elements.

In this wide-ranging and comprehensive volume, Gary Minda surveys the current state of legal scholarship and activism, providing an indispensable guide to the evolution of law in America.

Contents

• Origins of Modern Jurisprudence: 13
• Modern Conceptual Jurisprudence: 24
• Modern Normative Jurisprudence: 44
• Decline of Modern Jurisprudential Studies: 62
• Law and Economics: 83
• Critical Legal Studies: 106
• Feminist Legal Theory: 128
• Law and Literature: 149
• Critical Race Theory: 167
• Jurisprudence in Transition: 189
• Reaction of Modern Legal Scholars: 208
• Postmodern Jurisprudence: 224

About the author

Gary Minda is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence at Century's End; Open Access Lib and HC Series
• Author: Gary Minda
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: NYU Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0814755119, 9780814755112
• Length: 350 pages
• Subjects: Law / General; Law / Jurisprudence