This book of essays follows from and adds to the presentations, discussions and debates – the exchanges of ideas – of the Critical Legal Conference 2010, held in Utrecht 10-12 September at the Department of Legal Theory of the Faculty of Law (Utrecht University).
The Critical Legal Conference is an annual gathering of legal scholars that share a critical outlook on law and legal scholarship. This year’s conference focused, as a main theme, on exposing the normative abuse of law against the background of ‘multiple modernities’, i.e. the idea that modernity is not a single encompassing, Western concept but entails different traditions and ways of thought about contemporary society.  

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Academics in Legal Theory and Jurisprudence.

Author's information

Ubaldus de Vries is lecturer in the Department of Legal Theory at the School of Law of Utrecht University, the Netherlands and fellow of the Center for the Humanities, Utrecht Universities. In the Working Group on (Reflexive) Modernisation & Law he is engaged in conceptualizing a contextual approach towards understanding law and legal developments in the new modernity. Of special interest are issues of autonomy, responsibility and self-determination as well as the structure and pedagogy of legal education and legal research, seeking to bridge the gap between legal theory and social theory.

Lyana Francot is a lecturer in the Department of Legal Theory, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In the Working Group on (Reflexive) Modernisation & Law she seeks to contribute to the analysis of the interdependencies between legal developments and societal evolution. Current research centres on autopoietic justice, normativity and uncertainty in current modernity and an inquiry into the possibility of an ethics of action and experience. Furthermore, she has a not yet fully explored fascination for George Spencer Brown’s calculus. She published a.o. Normativity’s Re-Entry - Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory: Society and Law (Wolf Legal Publishers 2008).

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