SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Color Blindness, Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory
15 Mar 2017
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Critical legal studies and critical race theory: crt criticises cls, four tenants: rule of law, formalism, neutrality, and abstraction, 1. Is used by the privileged to ensure the status quo of society by keeping the privileged in power and the marginalized subjugated: 2. Formalism: legal rules are concrete a set of codified rules. It is not contradictory: legal rules under formalisms produce determinate rules, critique: they question the contradictions under the law, legal rules produce determinate results is incorrect, 3.
