Overview

This title was first published in 2003. Resurrecting the neglected question of what we mean by legal justice, this book seeks to re-imagine rather than simply critique our contemporary notions of the rule of law, rights and legal equality. This work of reconstruction offers a progressive and egalitarian approach to concepts that have become overly associated with the idea of limited government and social conservatism. Focusing on the necessary conditions of co-operative community life, this book presents a vision of law that facilitates rather than frustrates politics, an analysis of rights that boosts our capacities for caring, and an idea of equality that captures a cosmopolitan vision based on the recognition of shared humanity.

Full Product Details

9781138708396

Table of Contents

Reviews

'Robin West, the most constructive voice of progressive legal and constitutional theory, has spoken again, with characteristic insight, clarity, and passion. Her critiques of dominant understandings of legal justice and its ideals of the rule of law, rights, and formal equality are profound, illuminating, and cogent. And she goes beyond critique to reconstructing to re-imagining legal justice and these three ideals in pursuit of an attractive and inspiring progressive vision of a more just, more egalitarian, and more caring constitutional order. This book is essential reading for anyone who fears (or hopes) that progressive legal and constitutional theory is dead.' Professor James E. Fleming, Fordham University, USA 'Robin West's Re-Imagining Justice is one of the most provocative and thought-provoking books on jurisprudence of the past decade. In West's reconfiguration, politics is no longer a dirty word and equality and rights have as much to do with communities as they do with individuals. Every member of a legislature and law school faculty should read this book for a fascinating and inspiring roadmap of how to legislate or teach differently.' Professor Chai Feldblum, Georgetown University, USA 'Robin West provides a vision and a theory of an affirmative and generative relationship between government and people. All of us interested in the possibilities of constitutionalism should be grateful for her insights and guidance.' Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA 'With her accustomed force and clarity, Robin West articulates an attractive legalism for the Left in this book. Making good use of classical writers like Hobbes and Paine, as well as contemporary critical theory, she effectively restates traditional lawyerly ideals more often associated with political conservatism and centrist liberalism, the Rule of Law, devotion to individual rights, and formal equality in a way that will appeal to those with a progressive

Author Information

Robin L. West, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available