A Guide To Contemporary Legal Theory

Taught in every law school, legal theory has undergone an explosion of work in the last fifteen years. Much of the new thinking borrows from perspectives and methods developed in other disciplines, namely economics, history, and philosophy. This volume of fifteen original essays by leading proponents covers the development of this new approach and its application to modern law. Topics include economic game and choice theory, feminist theory, critical legal theory, race theory, pragmatism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, theories of interpretation, new legal history, and the new public law scholarship.