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Peter Goodrich: Specters of Critique: Hauntology and the Ghosts of Law
Specters of Critique: Hauntology and the Ghosts of Law
(p. 179 – 196)

Peter Goodrich

Specters of Critique: Hauntology and the Ghosts of Law

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  • law
  • society
  • legal practice
  • criticism
  • justice

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Peter Goodrich

is epistemically and ontographically transitional, his habitus an eerie space between Cardozo Law, New York; Birkbeck College, London; and New York University, Abu Dhabi. Recent exothermic productions include Schreber’s Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Liza Mattutat (ed.), Roberto Nigro (ed.), ...: What’s Legit?

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has received a great deal of attention in recent years, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the other, it is criticised for being an instrument of state oppression. Legal criticism’s strategies to deal with this ambivalence differ greatly: while some theoreticians seek to transcend the institution of law altogether, others advocate a transformation of the form of law or try to employ counter-hegemonic strategies to change the content of law, deconstruct its basis or invent rights. By presenting a variety of heterogeneous approaches to legal criticism, this volume points out transitions and exhibits irreconcilable differences of these approaches. Without denying the diversity of different forms of critique, they are related to one another with the aim of broadening the debates which all too often are conducted only within the boundaries of the separate theoretical currents.