Karl Schmidt

Law's Environment - Critical Legal Perspectives

by Bald de Vries

With Lyana Francot (Eds.) Published by Eleven international publishers (The Hague), 2011

This book of essays follows from and adds to the presentations, discussions and debates – the exchanges of ideas – of... more This book of essays follows from and adds to the presentations, discussions and debates – the exchanges of ideas – of the Critical Legal Conference 2010, held in Utrecht 10-12 September at the Department of Legal Theory of the Faculty of Law (Utrecht University).

The Critical Legal Conference is an annual gathering of legal scholars that share a critical outlook on law and legal scholarship. This year’s conference focused, as a main theme, on exposing the normative abuse of law against the background of ‘multiple modernities’, i.e. the idea that modernity is not a single encompassing, Western concept but entails different traditions and ways of thought about contemporary society.