The legal field as a battleground for social struggle: Reclaiming law from the margins
Scepticism towards law’s potential of fostering social change has been widespread in critical theory and contributed to strengthen social movements’ mistrust vis-à-vis the use of legal tools to advance their claims. Such “anti-law” posture is based on the assumption that law would formalise existin...
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Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
2021
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