Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
1. Legal Forms: Toward a Constitutive Theory --The Constitutive Dimension -- Beyond Symbolism and Pluralism -- Laws and Interests -- Discursive Practices -- 2. Rights to Profligacy? Sex and A S, the Early Years -- Rights as Practice -- Rights Movements -- Gay Rights and AIDS -- Law and Social Relations -- 3. Professions of Realism: An Institutional Form -- Ideologies in a Profession -- The Realist Tradition -- Contemporary Manifestations -- Positivism as the Academy -- 4. Remedial Law: The Ideology of Informalism -- Law Reform as Form of Law -- The Pound Conferences -- Family Mediation Alternatives -- Difference and the State -- 5. Radical Legal Consciousness: Sex and Rage -- Consciousness Rising -- Radicalism as Law's Form -- Dworkin-The Early Rage -- Law, Class, and Consciousness -- 6. The Constitution of Interests: Rethinking Legalism -- Intellectuals and Politics -- Positivism's Hierarchies -- Institutional Hegemony -- Legal Politics --Legal forms : toward a constitutive theory -- Rights to profligacy? : sex and AIDS, the early years -- Professions of realism : an institutional form -- Remedial law : the ideology of informalism -- Radical legal consciousness : sex and rage -- The constitution of interests : rethinking legalism.
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