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Law, Lawyers and Race
Critical Race Theory from the US to Europe
Author: Möschel Mathias
Language: EnglishSubject for Law, Lawyers and Race:
Keywords
Law; Lawyers; Race; Critical; Theory; CRT Scholar; SOS Racisme; Law Review; Conseil Constitutionnel; Key Characterisation; Law Journal; Continental European Context; Continental European Legal Systems; Postmodern Legal Movements; Tribunale Di; EU Law; Corte Costituzionale; EU Political Level; Corte Di Cassazione; Georgetown Law Journal; Critical Race Theory; UCLA Law Review; Feminist Legal Theory; Legal Transplants; anti-White Racism; Native American Affairs; EU Citizen; Disparate Impact Liability; Cherokee Nation; Native American Tribes
Publication date: 08-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars. Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States to Europe endeavours to fill this gap by providing an overview of the definition and consequences of CRT developed in American scholarship and describing its transplantation and application in the continental European context.
The CRT approach adopted in this book illustrates the reasons why the relationship between race and law in European civil law jurisdictions is far from anodyne. Law plays a critical role in the construction, subordination and discrimination against racial minorities in Europe, making it comparable, albeit in slightly different ways, to the American experience of racial discrimination. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Roma and anti-Black racism constitute a fundamental factor, often tacitly accepted, in the relationship between law and race in Europe. Consequently, the broadly shared anti-race and anti-racist position is problematic because it acts to the detriment of victims of racism while privileging the White, Christian, male majority.
This book is an original exploration of the relationship between law and race. As such it crosses the disciplinary divide, furthering both legal scholarship and research in Race and Ethnicity Studies.
Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 – Critical Race Theory: The Historical Context, Chapter 2 - Critical Race Theory: Its Genealogy And Writings, Chapter 3 - Transplanting Critical Race Theory To Europe, Chapter 4 – Towards A European Critical Race Theory, Chapter 5 – Contextualising A European Critical Race Theory, Conclusions, Bibliography