Critical Legal Conference
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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 it contributed to the formation of critical legal theory as a movement and field. The conference is based in the UK but it has also been held in India, Finland and Ireland. It is associated with the Critical Legal Studies
movement and loosely associated with the journal Law & Critique
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The Critical Legal Conference was established in 1984 first annual meeting of the Critical Legal Conference was held at the University of Kent in 1986. Alan Hunt
was the founding chair of the Critical Legal Conference.
Critical legal studies
Critical legal studies is a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
movement and loosely associated with the journal Law & Critique
Law & Critique
Law and Critique is a triannual law journal closely involved with the critical legal studies community. It was established in 1990 and is associated with the Critical Legal Conference...
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The Critical Legal Conference was established in 1984 first annual meeting of the Critical Legal Conference was held at the University of Kent in 1986. Alan Hunt
Alan Hunt (professor)
Alan Hunt is currently a professor of Sociology and of Law at Carleton University. He has a B.A. Hons. in Sociology; LL.B.; Ph.D. in Sociology....
was the founding chair of the Critical Legal Conference.
External links
- Critical Legal Conference 2011 Aberystwyth University
- http://www.uu.nl/criticallegalconference2010Critical Legal Conference 2010 Utrecht UniversityUtrecht UniversityUtrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....
] - http://www.le.ac.uk/la/clc2009/conference.htmlCritical Legal Conference 2009 University of LeicesterUniversity of LeicesterThe University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College....
] - http://www.criticallegalconference.comCritical Legal Conference 2008 University of GlasgowUniversity of GlasgowThe University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
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