Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought

For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars - including Louis Assier-Andrieu, Marianne Constable, Yves Dezalay, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Bryant G. Garth, Peter Goodrich, Duncan Kennedy, Martti Koskenniemi, Shaun McVeigh, Samuel Moyn, Annelise Riles, Charles F. Sabel and William H. Simon - examine what is distinctive about legal thought. They probe the relation between law and time, law and culture, and legal thought and legal action; the nature of current legal thought; the geography of legal thought; and the conditions for recognition of a new 'contemporary' style of law. This work will help theorists, social scientists, historians and students understand the intellectual context of legal problems, legal doctrine, and jurisprudential trends in the current conjuncture.

Author: Christopher Tomlins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/13/2018
Pages: 593
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781316605028

About the Author
Tomlins, Christopher: - Christopher Tomlins is Elizabeth J. Boalt Professor of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Freedom, Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (2010); Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (1993); and The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960 (1985). He has been awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association, the Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association (twice), the Reid Prize of the American Society for Legal History, and the Bancroft Prize of the Trustees of Columbia University.