LAWS 2198

This seminar examines several contemporary critical theories of law in their interdisciplinary settings. We trace the emergence and development of the legal scholarship of some or all of the following: critical legal feminism, critical race theory, gender studies and queer and trans legal theory, critical disability theory, critical legal pluralism, postcolonial and decolonial theories, the "return" to political economy, critical interdisciplinarity, and the law's "spatial turn". We examine these theories and movements through both their historical bases and seminal texts as well as through more recent texts that engage with the ongoing development and response of critical theories of law to the current challenges and realities law faces today.