The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle Over Legal Education Contributor(s): Austin, Arthur D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814706509 ISBN-13: 9780814706503 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Education - Law | Educational Law & Legislation |
Dewey: 340.071 |
LCCN: 98009046 |
Series: Critical America |
Physical Information: 1.52" H x 6.67" W x 9.24" (1.04 lbs) 236 pages |
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Publisher Description: Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most significant development since the emergence of the casebook, at the turn of the century, this trend has unleashed a fierce political struggle. At stake is nothing less than the entire enterprise of law and education, and thus a powerful platform from which to shape society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Austin, Arthur D.: - Arthur Austin is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence at Case Western Reserve University. |