TY - JOUR
T1 - Getting the Constitutive Power of Law Wrong
AU - McHugh-Russell, Liam
N1 - Liam McHugh-Russell, "Getting the Constitutive Power of Law Wrong" (31 March 2018), online (blog): Legal Form < https://legalform.blog/2018/03/31/getting-the-constitutive-power-of-law-wrong-liam-mchugh-russell/ > [https://perma.cc/P9DV-HEL8].
PY - 2018/3/31
Y1 - 2018/3/31
N2 - Marx’s discussions of law have long made jurists anxious. His relegation of law, along with art and philosophy, to the realm of ideology [1], his reference to law as a “mirror” [2], his insistence that “legal relations arise from economic ones” [3]—taken together, these claims not only threaten to unsettle flattering narratives that put lawyers on the side of social progress, but suggest what some would take to be worse: that our work is, in historical terms, irrelevant.
AB - Marx’s discussions of law have long made jurists anxious. His relegation of law, along with art and philosophy, to the realm of ideology [1], his reference to law as a “mirror” [2], his insistence that “legal relations arise from economic ones” [3]—taken together, these claims not only threaten to unsettle flattering narratives that put lawyers on the side of social progress, but suggest what some would take to be worse: that our work is, in historical terms, irrelevant.
KW - Marxist Analysis
KW - Social Relations
KW - Communism
KW - Ideology
UR - https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/621
UR - https://perma.cc/P9DV-HEL8
M3 - Article
JO - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
JF - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
ER -