Introduction
Postmodern theory of law is an umbrella term. It comprises various theoretical and empirical schools of thought that are defined by (1) an attempt to see the law in its social context, namely, not merely as positivist norms that come through the usual annals of legal decision-making (whether national, regional, international, supranational, etc.) but also as norms and behaviors that are produced in social interaction; (2) a tendency seriously to engage with interdisciplinarity, and work with the theoretical heritage of continental philosophy, such as post-Marxism, deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, theories of embodiment and spatiality, art theory and aesthetics, and more explicitly political legal strands, such as feminist legal theory, ecology and law, law and economics, postcolonialism, law and race, third world approaches to international law (TWAIL), queer legal theory, law and popular culture, and so on; and (3) a strong critique against...
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Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (2017). Postmodern Theory of Law. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_179-1
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