Roundtable on Gender, Sex and Violence in Custody
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
5-27-2010
Conference / Event Title
2010 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association
Abstract
The theme of the 2010 LSA Meeting–After Critique–invites us to consider the law and society enterprise today and to think about its future direction. We want to reflect on the various ways that law and society scholarship has been and should be engaged with the threat of terrorism and governmental responses to it, national and global attacks on the rule of law, questions of sovereignty and sovereign prerogative, the contemporary situation of identity politics, and the collapse of the global economy and the crisis of neo-liberalism.
We also want to think about whether there is anything meaningful and coherent in the phrase “law and society scholarship” as well as how we should position ourselves in relationship to other interdisciplinary enterprises, e.g. critical race theory, empirical legal studies, law, culture, and the humanities, etc. Is it time to revive our critical heritage as well as our traditions of theoretical and methodological self-scrutiny? What would this entail?
Recommended Citation
Smith, Brenda V., "Roundtable on Gender, Sex and Violence in Custody" (2010). Presentations. 678.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_presentations/678