critical legal theories

critical theory encapsulates the many connections between theory and praxis. the research handbook initially addresses the question of definition, tracking the origins and development of critical legal theory along its european and north american trajectories. thematic connections are made between the development of legal theory and other currents of critical thought including feminism, marxism, critical race theory, varieties of postmodernism, and more.

in jurisprudence as ideology, valerie kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it. she engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist and critical legal theory, and links these issues to debates in jurisprudence and the philosophy and sociology of law.