(Papers to be published in book form by Carolina Academic Press)
Proponents of critical legal studies, critical race theory, feminist legal theory, lat crit, and postmodern legal theory have all critiqued traditional foundationalist legal discourse, and have attempted to construct alternative discursive accounts of law and its relationship to society. Peter Goodrich has argued that these critical perspectives are all located within legal discourse. Many critical and postmodern theorists, however, have maintained that their critiques are external to legal discourse (i.e., that they are essentially meta-critiques of the domain itself). If Goodrich is correct, then how can critical perspectives really fundamentally change the discourse community? Alternatively, if the latter position is correct how can legal discourse evolve in order to accommodate the perspectives of these “outsider” narratives?
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