Description: Essays by noted theorists such as Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser, Peter Goodrich, and Gayatri Spivak provide a bridge between critical cultural studies in the humanities and the Critical Legal Studies movement demonstrating the transdisciplinary nature of both fields.
Brief description: Jerry D. Leonard received his Juris Doctorate from the Syracuse University College of Law and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His writings have appeared in College Literature, Legal Studies Forum, Discourse, Law and Critique, Textual Practice, and other journals.
Review Quotes:
"I am enthusiastic about this project. There are anthologies that address the intersections of legal studies with other fields, but none where the range and comprehensiveness of the essays focus major political issues in anything like the same way." -- Evan Watkins, University of Washington
"In a period when a succession of predictably organized, arranged, and conceived 'readers' are coming out almost daily, it is encouraging to see the kind of thoughtful and productive boundary-work Leonard has done here. Of all the anthologies he might have undertaken, nothing could be more urgent than one that pressures the unarticulated assumptions behind juridical practices--that is, those practices that promote and legitimate what is accepted as social justice at this historical moment. The persistent question that looms behind his project is whether there is or can ever be any such thing as 'universal' and 'objective' justice." -- Donald Morton, editor of Queer Theory: A Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies Reader