Re-Imagining Justice

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'Robin West, the most constructive voice of progressive legal and constitutional theory, has spoken again, with characteristic insight, clarity, and passion. Her critiques of dominant understandings of legal justice and its ideals of the rule of law, rights, and formal equality are profound, illuminating, and cogent. And she goes beyond critique to reconstructing to re-imagining legal justice and these three ideals in pursuit of an attractive and inspiring progressive vision of a more just, more egalitarian, and more caring constitutional order. This book is essential reading for anyone who fears (or hopes) that progressive legal and constitutional theory is dead.' Professor James E. Fleming, Fordham University, USA 'Robin West's Re-Imagining Justice is one of the most provocative and thought-provoking books on jurisprudence of the past decade. In West's reconfiguration, "politics" is no longer a dirty word and "equality" and "rights" have as much to do with communities as they do with individuals. Every member of a legislature and law school faculty should read this book for a fascinating and inspiring roadmap of how to legislate or teach differently.' Professor Chai Feldblum, Georgetown University, USA 'Robin West provides a vision and a theory of an affirmative and generative relationship between government and people. All of us interested in the possibilities of constitutionalism should be grateful for her insights and guidance.' Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA 'With her accustomed force and clarity, Robin West articulates an attractive "legalism for the Left" in this book. Making good use of classical writers like Hobbes and Paine, as well as contemporary critical theory, she effectively restates traditional lawyerly ideals more often associated with political conservatism and centrist liberalism, the Rule of Law, devotion to individual rights, and formal equality in a way that will appeal to those with a progressive