The Politics of Law : A Progressive Critique

Acknowledgments xi(2) Preface to the Third Edition xiii Introduction 1(22) David Kairys PART I: TRADITIONAL JURISPRUDENCE AND LEGAL EDUCATION 23(56) 1. The History of Mainstream Legal Thought 23(31) Elizabeth Mensch 2. Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy 54(25) Duncan Kennedy PART II: SELECTED ISSUES AND FIELDS OF LAW 79(562) LITIGATION AND THE LEGAL PROCESS 79(68) 3. Politics and Procedure 79(18) Martha Minow 4. Going to Court: Access, Autonomy, and the Contradictions of Liberal Legality 97(18) Austin Sarat 5. Gay Rights and Identity Imitation: Issues in the Ethics of Representation 115(32) Janet E. Halley THE QUALITY OF LIFE 147(43) 6. Health Law 147(25) Rand E. Rosenblatt 7. Environmental Law 172(18) Gerald Torres LIBERTY 190(50) 8. Freedom of Speech 190(26) David Kairys 9. The Indivisible Framework of International Human Rights: Bringing It Home 216(24) Rhonda Copelon PROPERTY 240(39) 10. Property 240(19) Joseph William Singer 11. The Stakes of Intellectual Property Law 259(20) Keith Aoki EQUALITY 279(102) 12. Law and Race in Early America 279(6) W. Haywood Burns 13. Antidiscrimination Law from 1954 to 1989: Uncertainty, Contradiction, Rationalization, Denial 285(27) Alan Freeman 14. Race and Affirmative Action: A Critical Race Perspective 312(16) Charles R. Lawrence III 15. Women's Subordination and the Role of Law 328(28) Nadine Taub Elizabeth M. Schneider 16. A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Law and Politics 356(25) Kimberle Crenshaw CRIME AND JUSTICE 381(64) 17. Crime and Punishment in the United States: Myths, Realities, and Possibilities 381(29) Elliott Currie 18. Two Systems of Criminal Justice 410(24) David Cole 19. Police Practices 434(11) David Rudovsky PERSONAL INJURY 445(52) 20. Torts 445(26) Richard L. Abel 21. The Rise and Early Progressive Critique of Objective Causation 471(26) Morton J. Horwitz BUSINESS 497(42) 22. Contract Law as Ideology 497(14) Peter Gabel Jay Feinman 23. Contract Versus Politics in Corporation Doctrine 511(28) William H. Simon LABOR AND SOCIAL WELFARE 539(52) 24. Critical Theory and Labor Relations Law 539(30) Karl E. Klare 25. Welfare and Legal Entitlements: The Social Roots of Poverty 569(22) Lucy A. Williams THE ROLE AND STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT 591(50) 26. The Political Tilt of Separation of Powers 591(26) Jules Lobel 27. Redistribution and the Takings Clause 617(24) Molly S. McUsic PART III: PROGRESSIVE APPROACHES TO THE LAW 641(78) 28. Some Critical Theories of Law and Their Critics 641(21) Robert W. Gordon 29. Language and the Law: Literature, Narrative, and Legal Theory 662(18) Jane B. Baron Julia Epstein 30. The Radical Tradition in the Law 680(11) Victor Rabinowitz 31. The Sex of Law 691(17) Frances Olsen 32. The Role of Law in Progressive Politics 708(11) Cornel West Contributors 719(6) Index and Table of Cases 725