Critique of the Legal Order

Critique of the Legal Order
Author: Richard Quinney,Randall G. Shelden
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351320344

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Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering, but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class. Quinney challenges modern criminologists to examine their own positions. As "ancillary agents of power," criminologists provide information that governing elites use to manipulate and control those who threaten the system. Quinney's original and thorough analysis of "crime control bureaucracies" and the class basis of such bureaucracies anticipates subsequent research and theorizing about the "crime control industry," a system that aims at social control of marginalized populations, rather than elimination of the social conditions that give rise to crime. He forcefully argues that technology applied to a "war against crime," together with academic scholarship, is used to help maintain social order to benefit a ruling class. Quinney also suggests alternatives. Anticipating the work of Noam Chomsky, he suggests we must first overcome a powerful media that provides a "general framework" that serves as the "boundary of expression." Chomsky calls this the manufacture of consent by providing necessary illusions. Quinney calls for a critical philosophy that enables us to transcend the current order and seek an egalitarian socialist order based upon true democratic principles. This core study for criminologists should interest those with a critical perspective on contemporary society.

The Degradation of the International Legal Order

The Degradation of the International Legal Order
Author: Bill Bowring
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008-02-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781135330903

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Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order? argues passionately for a rehabilitation of the honour of historic events and processes, and of their role in generating legal concepts. Drawing primarily from the Marxian tradition, but also engaging with a range of contemporary work in critical theory and critical legal and human rights scholarship, this book analyses historical and recent international events and processes in order to challenge their orthodox interpretation. What is thus proposed is a new evaluation of international legal principles and human rights norms, the revolutionary content of which, it is argued, turns them from mere rhetoric into powerful weapons of struggle. Accessibly written, but theoretically sophisticated, this original and timely book is intended for critical teachers and students of international law, human rights, and international relations, as well as legal and political activists.

Critique of legal order

Critique of legal order
Author: Richard Quinney
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1974
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:164652909

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Law and the Social Order

Law and the Social Order
Author: Morris Raphael Cohen
Publsiher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1412827302

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Containing the bulk of Morris Cohen's writings on the philosophy of law, this collection of essays features articles originally published in popular periodicals and law reviews during the early decades of this century. In his introduction to the Social and Moral Thought edition, Harry N. Rosenfield reviews Cohen's contributions to the philosophy of law and emphasizes Cohen's enormous influence, as a legal philosopher, on American law.

State Responsibility in the International Legal Order

State Responsibility in the International Legal Order
Author: Katja Creutz
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781108494298

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The book analyzes State responsibility in international law from a holistic and critical perspective.

Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System

Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System
Author: Tara Smith
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781107114494

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This book grounds judicial review in its deepest foundations: the function, authority, and objectivity of a legal system as a whole.

Constitution Making and Transnational Legal Order

Constitution Making and Transnational Legal Order
Author: Gregory Shaffer,Tom Ginsburg,Terence C. Halliday
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781108473101

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Constitutions are no longer exclusively national projects, but increasingly result from broader transnational processes that form a transnational legal order.

The Politics of Law

The Politics of Law
Author: David Kairys
Publsiher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN: 0394711106

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