scholarly journals Slaying the Leviathan: Critical Jurisprudence and The Treaty of Waitangi

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 683
Author(s):  
K Upston-Hooper
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
International Law ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
Legal Thinking

This article considers the perspectives of four contributors to the current discourse on the Treaty of Waitangi: Professor Jane Kelsey, Dr Paul McHugh, Professor F M Brookfield and Moana Jackson.  The jurisprudential underpinnings of each authors arguments are examined.  The article focuses on the degree to which two new forms of jurisprudential thought, Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory, have informed the Treaty discourse. The article concludes that, although such critical jurisprudence has yet to permeate New Zealand jurisprudence in any meaningful way, Critical Race Theory could help transform post-settler legal thinking. This article was awarded the Quentin-Baxter LLM prize in Public and International Law in 1997.

scholarly journals Um efeito alquímico: sobre o uso do discurso dos direitos pelas/os negras/os

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natália Neris
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies

Resumo Patricia J. Williams é uma jurista e intelectual negra norte-americana. Neste trabalho abordo especificamente a concepção da autora acerca do uso da linguagem ou discurso dos direitos pelos grupos subalternizados em função da raça. Tal enfoque, além de permitir a reflexão sobre o tema no âmbito da produção jurídica brasileira, contribuirá para que o trabalho cumpra dois objetivos: apresentar as principais características do processo de teorização da autora e permitir que conheçamos um dos pontos fundamentais da controvérsia entre o Critical Race Theory e o Critical Legal Studies.

13. Critical legal theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 344-369
Author(s):  
Raymond Wacks
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Critical Legal Theory

Critical legal theory rejects what is generally regarded as the natural order of things, be it the free market (in the case of Critical Legal Studies), ‘meta-narratives’ (postmodernism), the conception of ‘race’ (Critical Race Theory), and patriarchy (in the case of feminist jurisprudence). Critical legal theorists share a profound scepticism about many of the questions that have long been regarded as at the core of legal theory. This chapter touches on the first three of these movements. It first discusses the development of critical legal studies and then turns to postmodern legal theory, considering the views of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. It then outlines the principal claims of Critical Race Theory (CRT), and considers the relationships between CRT and feminist theory and CRT and postmodernism.

scholarly journals De Patricia Williams A Patricia Collins: Raça, Crítica E Feminismo

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1169-1202
Author(s):  
Ana Pontes-Saraiva ◽  
Ciani Sueli das Neves
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Patricia Williams ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins

Resumo Traçar caminho dialógico entre Patricia Hill Collins, como elemento do pensamento feminista negro para superar opressões racistas, patriarcais, classistas e heterossexistas, com as reflexões realizadas por Patricia J. Williams ao articular-se com os Critical Legal Studies (CLS), enfrentando realidades invisibilizadas com a Critical Race Theory (CRT) é o escopo deste artigo. Analisar todos esses “passos que vêm de longe” nos faz compreender que o arcabouço teórico de Williams, detentora de trocas significativas na epistemologia feminista negra, foi rico o suficiente para permitir qualidade em seu olhar teórico e refletir sobre os CLS e a acuidade de suas contribuições para a CRT. Patricia Hill Collins foi escolhida pela contemporaneidade e similitudes de articulações teóricas com Williams. Sua visão do pensamento feminista negro como teoria social crítica, em um processo consciente contra formas diversificadas de opressão, leva a compreender a influência sobre Patricia Williams na crítica sobre a troca das demandas por direitos por demandas por necessidades, ideia bem construída por Collins. O artigo também busca esclarecer como essas reflexões influenciaram e podem permanecer fortalecendo a epistemologia feminista interseccional brasileira.

Frameworks of Critical Race Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee E. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Education History ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
American Society

Critical race theory (CRT) concerns the study and transformation of relationships among race, (ethnicity), racism, and power. For many scholars, CRT is a theoretical and interpretative lens that analyzes the appearance of race and racism within institutions and across literature, film, art, and other forms of social media. Unlike traditional civil rights approaches that embraced incrementalism and systematic progress, CRT questioned the very foundations of the legal order. Since the 1980s, various disciplines have relied on this theory—most notably the fields of education, history, legal studies, feminist studies, political science, psychology, sociology, and criminal justice—to address the dynamics and challenges of racism in American society. While earlier narratives may have exclusively characterized the plight of African Americans against institutional power structures, later research has advocated the importance of understanding and highlighting the narratives of all people of color. Moreover, the theoretical lenses of CRT have broadened its spectrum to include frameworks that capture the struggles and experiences of Latinx, Asian, and Native Americans as well. Taken collectively, these can be regarded as critical race studies. Each framework relies heavily on certain principles of CRT, exposing the easily obscured and often racialized power structures of American society. Included among these principles (and related tenets) is white supremacy, white privilege, interest convergence, legal indeterminacy, intersectionality, and storytelling, among others. An examination of each framework reveals its remarkable potential to inform and facilitate an understanding of racialized practices within and across American power structures and institutions, including education, employment, the legal system, housing, and health care.

Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Natsu Taylor Saito ◽  
Akilah J. Kinnison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
International Law ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Right

Racialized privilege and subordination impact children’s rights in many ways. This chapter begins with an overview of critical race theory (CRT), a framework that has been used primarily to assess the roles played by race and racism in the US legal system. It then summarizes key provisions of international law that prohibit racial discrimination and protect the right of all peoples to self-determination, focusing on how these norms impact children’s rights. Noting the importance of addressing the intersection of race and rights, this chapter suggests that the application of CRT principles could enhance the recognition of children’s rights in international law.

scholarly journals W.E.B. DuBois's “The Comet” and Contributions to Critical Race Theory: An Essay on Black Radical Politics and Anti-Racist Social Ethics

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiland Rabaka
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Law Professors

No longer considered the exclusive domain of legal studies scholars and radical civil rights lawyers and law professors, critical race theory has blossomed and currently encompasses and includes a wide range of theory and theorists from diverse academic disciplines. Its most prominent practitioners, initially law professors and “left scholars, most of them scholars of color” employing the work of the breathtakingly brilliant African American lawyer, scholar, and activist Derrick Bell (2005) as their primary point of departure, borrowed from many of the political and theoretical breakthroughs of black nationalism, anti-racist feminism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. They also employed and experimented with new cutting-edge literary techniques and social science methodologies that shaped and shaded their work and burgeoning socio-legal discourse, ultimately giving it a fierceness and flair unheard of in the history of legal studies. Early critical race theorists' work acutely accented “the vexed bond between law and racial power” (Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller & Thomas, 1995, p. xiii). The emphasis on race and power quickly led them to the critique of “white supremacy and the subordination of people of color,” not simply in the legal system, but in society as a whole (p. xiii).

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