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Critical legal studies

Here are entered works on the theory which holds that traditional legal systems protect the interests of the establishment rather than promote social justice.

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• Sociological jurisprudence
• Critical theory

• Critical legal studies -- United States

• Critical legal studies movement

• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Chris Thornhill (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Ronen Shamir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Les Lois de l'Ordre Social (2 volumes in French; 1849-1850), by F. Schützenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies (c2014), by Archie Zariski (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Victor Uribe Uran (page images at Pitt)

• Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (and predecessor title, 1980-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Legal Anthropology (partial serial archives)

• Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Visuality's Romantic Genealogies (2014), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley and Jill H. Casid (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Philosophy and Culture (2008), ed. by Rei Terada (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Frictions (2011), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Herbert Marcuse, trans. by Jeremy J. Shapiro (PDF at monoskop.org)

• Inflexions (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Culture Machine (1999-) (full serial archives)
• Fast Capitalism (2005-) (full serial archives)

• Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory (open access edition, c2021), ed. by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning (c2011), by Jabari Mahiri (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Cary Nelson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, by Sumathi Ramaswamy (HTML at UC Press)

• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Mel Stanfill (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory (open access edition, c2021), ed. by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Derek Andrew Pacheco (PDF at Ohio State)