JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement

In-person event

In his forthcoming book The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies, Stewart uses the tools of CLS to analyse CLS, assessing its dominant narrative against its history and legacy. Literary and philosophical lenses are used to highlight the power of CLS, which in turn presents its deficits. In this seminar Stewart presents this rise and fall through key discoveries in his research, as well as anecdotes from the Crits, and why CLS was not as radical as it should have been.

About the speaker:

Dr James Gilchrist Stewart

James is a lecturer in law and LLB Program Manager at RMIT’s graduate school of business and law. James has published on legal theory, neoliberalism’s effect on law, and is a media voice on Australian consumer law. James’ first book “The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies” is scheduled for publication with Edinburgh University Press in 2024.

Thursday 5 October 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST

Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

CPD Points: 1.5

This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.