Beyond Doctrine Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law by Harry Hobbs, Jeremy Patrick ISBN 9781760025625, 9781760025632, 1760025623, 1760025631 instant download

Beyond Doctrine Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law by Harry Hobbs, Jeremy Patrick ISBN 9781760025625, 9781760025632, 1760025623, 1760025631 instant download

This edited collection includes contributions from an impressive array of Australian scholars, each of whom specialises in thinking about law from a different perspective. Whether viewing law as a tool to legitimise oppression (Marxism), as a mechanism to provide the most efficient outcomes (law and economics), as an artefact of particular historical events and forces (legal history), as a method to impose and undo gender hierarchies (Queer and feminist legal theory), as the means to explain – and perhaps ameliorate – the effects of the “Age of Discovery” (decolonialisation studies), and much more, these theories ask us to think more deeply about law and what it means.

Beyond Doctrine provides an authoritative and thoughtful introduction to different legal methodologies and situates those methodologies in an Australian context. It will appeal to students of legal methodology courses and legal scholars.