Centring critical theories of subordination: LPE beyond the elision of the social

Angela P. Harris

Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy, 2025, pp 114-135 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: So-called ‘out-crit’ legal theory – theory focused on identity-based subordination – remains on the periphery of hegemonic legal scholarship, especially scholarship having to do with economic activity and institutions. I argue that out-crit theory is important to LPE for three reasons: first, it sheds crucial light on some of LPE's foundational concepts; second, alliances between LPE and out-crit scholars facilitate the shared political goal of a democratised legal academy; and third, taking out-crit theory seriously invites LPE scholars into a project, shared by social movements, of changing the world for the better in a moment of accelerating global crises.

Keywords: Critical race theory; Identity; Out-crit theory; Law and Political Economy; Legal education; Social movements; Feminist theory; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803921181
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