Getting Class

Ideology as Rationalization and as Self-Righteousness: Psychology and Law as Paths to Critical Business Ethics

“…CLS characterized the self and the legal system as split between contradictory value poles (Kennedy, 1979), with a consequent Sartrean freedom to choose at the individual and systemic levels (Kennedy, 1976). Over the past several decades, CLS has served as a starting point for an ongoing series of large and small critical legal movements in the United States (U.S.) and internationally, including Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Delgado, 1984;Bell, 1987;Williams, 1991); critical legal feminism (Olsen, 1983;Fineman, 1988;Menkel-Meadow, 1988); critical race feminism (Harris, 1990;Crenshaw, 1991;Matsuda, 1991;Wing, 2003); British critical legal studies (Fitzpatrick & Hunt, 1987;Goodrich, 1992); Latina/o critical legal theory (LatCrit) (Valdes, 1997;Delgado & Stefancic, 1998;Iglesias & Valdes, 1998;Johnson & Martinez, 1999); Asian-American critical legal theory (Chang, 1993;Matsuda, 2001); gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT)/ queer legal theory (Levit, 2000;Fineman, Jackson & Romero, 2009); third world approaches to international law (Anghie, 2008;Gathii, 2011); and the ClassCrits Project (Mutua, 2008;Kessler, 2008). Together, these varied movements constitute a broad stream of cls.…”