O pledoarie pentru teorie
A plea for theory

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is as a plea emphasising the value of legal theory in legal studies at undergraduate level. Drawing on a personal experience of teaching and research in four distinct jurisdictions, my responses seek to point to and react to the central challenges that legal education is currently facing. Identifying law as a field within the humanities, the position I present attempts to point to the intrinsic value of theory in the study of law, and the need for the presence of law within the academia. As part of a critical reflection on the status of the discipline of law, drawing on the tradition of critical legal studies, the present analysis follows three main lines: an exposition of the material conditions that determine the conditions of legal education, the negative consequences of confining and containing legal studies, and a reflection on the political role of lawyers in society.

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