The empire strikes back : outsiders and the struggle over legal education / Arthur Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Arthur D.

Series:

Critical America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--United States.

Law.

Law--Study and teaching.

United States.

Critical legal studies--United States.

Critical legal studies.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1998]

Summary:

Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The result, here vividly recounted by Arthur Austin, has been an uncompromising, take-no-prisoners fight for dominance. The challenge comes from "outsiders", a collection of feminists, critical race theorists, and critical legal studies scholars who rely on unconventional methods such as storytelling to give voice to the underrepresented. In the other, demographically larger camp resides the monolithic Empire, consisting of traditionalists who, having developed an effective form of scholarship, now circle the wagons against the outsider heathens. Neither partisan nor objective, Austin is both respectful and critical of each faction.

Contents:

The outsiders vs. the empire

The empire

Empire scholarship : what are they protecting?

The greening of faculty, students, and law review

"CLS is dead as a doornail"

Critical race scholarship

Can voice and truth coexist?

The abyss of legal scholarship

Comments and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.

ISBN:

0814706509

0814706517

OCLC:

38602455