The Ethical Turn in Critical Legal Thought
In Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory, edited by Emilios Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes and Marco Goldoni, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2019 Forthcoming
University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2018-02
20 Pages Posted: 4 Jan 2018 Last revised: 18 Oct 2018
Date Written: December 30, 2017
Abstract
This essay examines the rise of "ethics" in critical legal studies since the mid-1990s. A description of the contested meanings of ethics in relation to justice, including especially the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas, is included, as is an analysis of the significance of a radical conception of ethical responsibility for law, politics, and critical theory.
Keywords: ethics, justice, critical legal studies, postmodernism
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