| Abstrakt: |
Critical Legal Studies occupies a peculiar place in contemporary legal critique. Its disparate nature and the wide-ranging application of its title leads to a variety of different and expansive Critical Legal Studies. However, the movement that gave its name to this field, the U.S. based Critical Legal Studies, currently sits in stasis. Focusing on Duncan Kennedy's mid-1990s declaration that the U.S. based Critical Legal Studies is "dead as a doornail", this paper interrogates what this event meant for continuing Critical Legal Studies. Drawing from Charles Dickens, Jacques Derrida, and Francis Fukuyama, the death of Critical Legal Studies is framed as creating a new Posthumous-Critical Legal Studies, haunted by the original CLS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
