Anja Oberkofler, Wien: Richterliche Tätigkeit im US-amerikanischen Rechtssystem aus dem Blickwinkel der Critical Legal Studies

One of the most fascinating but also one of the most criticised legal theories in the USA for the last years have been the Critical Legal Studies which emerged some thirty years ago and queried the hegemonic views on the law and the law system in the US. This essay especially tries to analyse the position of one of the leading representatives of this so called “movement” – Duncan Kennedy – towards the role of judges in the US-American legal system. As the American legislation and adjudication have intensified their ambitions to extend their power of jurisdiction – all thus going hand in hand with a restriction of the human rights – a view on a critical and progressive US-American theory of jurisdiction is of great importance.

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