The empire strikes back
Subtitle: outsiders and the struggle over legal education
By: Arthur Austin.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Law -- Study and teaching -- United States; Critical legal studies -- United States; Sociological jurisprudence
Description: Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The result, here vividly recounted by Arthur Austin, has been an uncompromising, take-no-prisoners fight for dominance. The challenge comes from "outsiders," a collection of feminists, critical race theorists, and critical legal studies scholars who rely on unconventional methods such as storytelling to give voice to the underrepresented. In the other, demographically larger camp resides the monolithic Empire, consisting of traditionalists who, having developed an effective form of scholarship, now circle the wagons against the outsider heathens.

Neither partisan nor objective, Austin is both respectful and critical of each faction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: The outsiders vs. the empire; title: The empire; title: Empire scholarship : what are they protecting?; title: The greening of faculty, students, and law review; title: "CLS is dead as a doornail"; title: Critical race scholarship; title: Can voice and truth coexist?; title: The abyss of legal scholarship; title: Comments and conclusions.