Legal Studies as Cultural Studies

Jerry D. Leonard received his Juris Doctorate from the Syracuse University College of Law and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His writings have appeared in College Literature, Legal Studies Forum, Discourse, Law and Critique, Textual Practice, and other journals.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: (Post)Modern Legal Studies as (Critical) Cultural StudiesJerry Leonard Dossier I: The Subject 1. Freud and Critical Legal Studies: Contours of a Radical Socio-Legal PsychoanalysisDavid S. Daudill 2. Mind's Opportunity: Birthing a Poststructuralist Feminist JurisprudenceMarie Ashe 3. Foucault and (the Ideology of) Genealogical Legal TheoryJerry Leonard Dossier II: The Sign 4. Constitutions and Culture StudiesGayatri Chakravorty Spivak 5. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Some Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence ThomasNancy Fraser 6. "A Well-Founded Fear of Justice": Law and Ethics in PostmodernityCostas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington 7. Time, Deconstruction, and the Challenge to Legal Positivism: The Call for Judicial ResponsibilityDrucilla Cornell Dossier III: The Political 8. Critical Legal Studies as Radical Politics and World ViewEugene D. Genovese 9. Sleeping With the Enemy: An Essay on the Politics of Critical Legal Studies in AmericaPeter Goodrich 10. Writing in the Political: Resistance (Post)ModernismTeresa L. Ebert A Selective Bibliography in Legal Studies as Cultural StudiesJerry Leonard Notes on the Contributors Index

"I am enthusiastic about this project. There are anthologies that address the intersections of legal studies with other fields, but none where the range and comprehensiveness of the essays focus major political issues in anything like the same way." — Evan Watkins, University of Washington"In a period when a succession of predictably organized, arranged, and conceived 'readers' are coming out almost daily, it is encouraging to see the kind of thoughtful and productive boundary-work Leonard has done here. Of all the anthologies he might have undertaken, nothing could be more urgent than one that pressures the unarticulated assumptions behind juridical practices—that is, those practices that promote and legitimate what is accepted as social justice at this historical moment. The persistent question that looms behind his project is whether there is or can ever be any such thing as 'universal' and 'objective' justice." — Donald Morton, editor of Queer Theory: A Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies Reader