The Critical Legal Pocketbook

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Illan rua Wall, Freya Middleton, Sahar Shah, and CLAW

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The Critical Legal Pocketbook provides the tools for law students to uncover the hidden intricacies of law. Law creates an ethical and rational facade for itself, but beneath the surface you will find that it has its monsters; the leviathan of the state, the golems of racism and misogyny, the hydra of coloniality, the vampire of capitalism. These roam throughout law’s subterranean structures. At the same time, law is often painted as a heroic defence of the innocent against these terrors. Legal education likes to forget the ways that law was essential in generating structures of domination and subjection. The Critical Legal Pocketbook casts a different light on the law, illuminating some of the ways in which law (and legal education in particular) nourishes its monsters – and sometimes works to make these monsters look tame and docile. Drawing on recent developments in critical legal theory, it considers other dimensions of law: its ambiguity, susceptibility to capture, and its potential as a site of rupture.

Edited by students at the University of Warwick, and written by expert critical legal researchers and practitioners, the Critical Legal Pocketbook is essential reading for law students in the UK and other common law jurisdictions. The Pocketbook includes twenty-five substantive chapters on traditional legal subjects from Contract Law to Human Rights, and from Mooting to Property Law. Interspersed among these are fifteen key concept notes that aim to help students grasp the complexity and plurality of critical analyses of law.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. MOOTING
Advocacy, Litigation, Strategy
Christine Schwöbel-Patel

3. THINKING ABOUT DESCRIPTIONS
Law & Literature, Legal Writing
Marco Wan

4. ON WHAT PASSES FOR LEGAL THEORY
Legal Theory, Jurisprudence
Illan rua Wall

5. THE RADICAL LAWYER
Legal Practice, The Bar, Activism
Zeenat Islam

6. CONCEPT: A DEVIANT STUDENT
Stephen Connelly

7. CONCEPT: POSITIVISM
Ben Golder

8. HOW TO RUN AN EMPIRE (LAWFULLY)
Public International Law, International Economic Law
Ntina Tzouvala

9. LAW IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Climate Change, Environmental Activism & Law
Daniel Matthews

10. CONCEPT: NEOLIBERALISM
Jessica Whyte

11. CONCEPT: HEGEMONY
Henrique Carvalho

12. CONTROLLING REFUGEES
Refugee Law, Migration, Internal Displacement
Simon Behrman

13. LAW IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS
International Environmental Law
Sam Adelman

14. CONCEPT: COLONIALISM & IMPERIALISM
Christine Schwöbel-Patel

15. CONCEPT: THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW
Rohini Sen

16. CONTRACT LAW AND EMPIRE
Contract Law, Legal History
Máiréad Enright

17. UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS
Contract Law
Sahar Shah

18. DECENTERING PROPERTY NORMS
Property Law, Land Law
Smith Ouma

19. THE RADICAL FRINGES OF TORT LAW
Tort Law, Litigation
Colin Murray

20. CONCEPT: COLONIAL MODERNITY
Sahar Shah

21. CONCEPT: POWER
Alex Sharpe

22. THE BIOPOLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Environmental Law, Legal Theory
Vito De Lucia

23.LAW AT THE INTERSECTION
Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory
Carolina Alonso Bejarano

24. CONCEPT: CARE AND VULNERABILITY
Vanessa Munro

25. CONCEPT: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION<
Serena Natile

26. CRIMINAL INJUSTICE
Criminal Law, Criminology
Yvette Russell

27. MAKING AND BR(E)AKING POWER
Constitutional Law
Angus McDonald

28. CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE
Public Law, Poverty Law
Karen Ashton

29. CONCEPT: THE STATE
Illan rua Wall

30. CONCEPT: IDEOLOGY
Tor Krever

31. WITNESSING HEALTH LAW
Medical Law, Health Law
Ruth Fletcher

32. A LIVING LABOUR OF LAW
Employment Law, Labour Law
Anastasia Tataryn

33. HUMAN RIGHTS AS A CONTESTED TERRAIN
International Human Rights Law
Raza Saeed

34. Rights as Friendship
Human Rights, Legal Theory
Bal Sokhi-Bulley

35. CONCEPT: SPACE
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

36. CONCEPT: STRATEGY
Stacy Douglas

37. TRUSTS AND KLEPTOCRACY
Equity and Trusts Law
Adam Gearey

38. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Intellectual Property Law
Ben Farrand

39. MONEY
Banking and Finance Law, Law & Economics
Stephen Connelly

40.TECHNOLOGY WITH LEGAL EDUCATION
Legal Education, Blockchain, Legal Theory
Robert Herian

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Footnote/Endnote:

Illan rua Wall et al., eds., The Critical Legal Pocketbook (Oxford: Counterpress, 2021).

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Wall, Illan rua, Frey Middleton, Sahar Shah, and CLAW, eds. The Critical Legal Pocketbook. Oxford: Counterpress, 2021.

* This ebook replaces the previous ebook with ISBN 978-1-910761-12-0.