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LAW: RHETORICAL PRETENCE OR APOLITICAL REALITY ?A discussion regarding the validity of critical explanations about the nature of law
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TOM HORDER - 300071807 LAW: RHETORICAL PRETENCE OR APOLITICAL REALITY ? A discussion regarding the validity of critical explanations about the nature of law ESSAY LAWS330 JURISPRUDENCE Word Count: 1793 excluding footnotes and bibliography LAW FACULTY VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON 2005 [1] In discussing the validity of the explanations of law offered by Critical Legal Theory1 ("CLT") we must first elucidate upon what such explanations are, bearing in mind the ideological conflict existent within the theories themselves. Secondly, we should question their accuracy and usefulness both in terms of the present context and that from which they were conceived. It is the author's general submission that critical theories do possess a substantial degree of validity as they serve to raise awareness of issues within our society that would otherwise be obscured by the facade of objective rhetoric. [2] Jurisprudential movements throughout the centuries have sought an identifiable unity of law, whereby in determining the source of law we may make...
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