Getting the Constitutive Power of Law Wrong

Liam McHugh-Russell

Getting the Constitutive Power of Law Wrong

Liam McHugh-Russell

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Abstract

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.

Original language	Canadian English
Journal	Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Publication status	Published - Mar. 31 2018

Keywords

Marxist Analysis
Social Relations
Communism
Ideology

Disciplines

Law
Law and Philosophy
Legal Theory

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Getting the Constitutive Power of Law Wrong

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