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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Critical Legal Studies"”.
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From obscuring transcendentalism to functional openness in European Court of Justice scholarship
… law by the Court of Justice. Inspired by the legal realism and critical legal studies approaches studied during my advanced master's degree, I called for more openness regarding the normative foundations underlying such scholarship.
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
<p><em>Descent</em> is metacritical, ranging across disciplines to take up – as flash points or instances – failed attempts to revolutionize knowledge, considering these as descents, or movements into the deep, that remain stiff or un-poetic in their attitudes toward the American truisms …
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Legal Education through a Social Justice Lens: A Framework for Teaching Law in the South African Context
… legitimate to prioritize social justice in the Legal Education discipline. Three sets of literature support this argument. First, South African higher education policy, which emphasizes the need to produce graduates who are able to contribute to societal transformation. Second, the University of …
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An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication
… is one that both explains the settled legal materials and coheres with the political morality embedded in those materials. He believes that those constraints will result in one correct interpretation that best fulfills these requirements. Dworkin’s critics, however, argue that because …
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An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication
… is one that both explains the settled legal materials and coheres with the political morality embedded in those materials. He believes that those constraints will result in one correct interpretation that best fulfills these requirements. Dworkin’s critics, however, argue that because …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… the dual role of Algerian lawyers, both as legal professionals and political activists, during the 2019 Hirak movement. It pays particular attention to their strategic use of social media. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative semi-structured interviews and …
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The Invisible Hand or the Handgun: Ride Hailing, Violence, and Political Settlements in the South African Urban Mobility Market
… frameworks from new institutional economics and critical legal studies, I show that violence plays an important role in market governance. Violence on the part of taxi associations is embedded in the market’s informal institutions and constitutes an enforcement mechanism that underpins the …
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Dominance and Subordination: A Case study of Race, Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
… group and team learning activities. Drawing on critical pedagogy and the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) tradition it investigated which students were dominant and subordinate during the learning activities. Focusing on the narrative of colourblind and gender-blind meritocracy which is the dominant …
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A legal realist critique of the new international law regime relating to the treatment of minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe : (a dialectical theoretical inquiry)
This thesis is a work written in the genre of the legal realist critique. Its main topic is the development of the new international legal regime relating to the treatment of minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) following the end of the Cold War. The general methodological …
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A Critical race feminist perspective on Section 217 of the Constitution
… system as positivistic in nature I will critically analyse the Sonke Gender Justice Network v Malema hate speech court case. I posit that the Equality Court’s decision was mainly result based and as a result fell short of addressing the core issues affecting black women on the basis of …
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The First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to access equal information in America's public schools
… access to equal information undergirding the critical thinking training they receive in schools. However, the Supreme Court sanctioned school funding disparities caused by property tax based systems by claiming that there is no fundamental right to an education in the United States per the …