Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
Critical legal studies — is a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory (the Frankfurt School) to law. The abbreviations CLS and Crit are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents. Contents 1 History 2 Themes 3… … Wikipedia
Critical legal studies — bzw. Kritische Rechtslehre wird eine Bewegung in der Rechtsphilosophie bzw. Rechtssoziologie genannt, die mit der Methoden der Kritischen Theorie (Frankfurter Schule) vergleichbare Methoden auf das Recht anwendet. CLS und Crit sind Abkürzungen,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Critical management studies — (CMS) is a loose but extensive grouping of politically left wing and theoretically informed critiques of management, business and organisation, grounded originally in a critical theory perspective. Today it encompasses a wide range of… … Wikipedia
Critical Terrorism Studies — is a controversial new sub discipline of Terrorism studies. It attempts to encourage criticism of the discipline of Terrorism studies itself and to widen debate by Terrorism studies researchers in part by applying insights from Critical Theory… … Wikipedia
Critical Legal Conference — The Critical Legal Conference is an annual critical legal theory conference which gathers a community of critical legal theoreticians and activists. Along with the Conference on Critical Legal Studies in America, and Critique du Droit in France… … Wikipedia
Critical race theory — (CRT) is an academic discipline focused upon the intersection of race, law and power. Although no set of canonical doctrines or methodologies defines CRT, the movement is loosely unified by two common areas of inquiry. First, CRT has analyzed the … Wikipedia
Critical pedagogy — Major works Pedagogy of the Oppressed … Wikipedia
Critical discourse analysis — (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are visible in text and talk.[1] Since Norman Fairclough s Language and… … Wikipedia
Critical international relations theory — is a diverse set of schools of thought in International Relations (IR) that have criticized the theoretical, meta theoretical and/or political status quo, both in IR theory and in international politics more broadly from positivist as well as… … Wikipedia
Critical ethnography — applies a critical theory based approach to ethnography. It focuses on the implicit values expressed within ethnographic studies and, therefore, on the unacknowledged biases that may result from such implicit values.[1] It has been called… … Wikipedia
