1st Edition

Legal Form Pashukanis and the Marxist Critique of Law

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis’ pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism , this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form. Evgeny Pashukanis’ General Theory , born amidst the fervour of the first socialist revolution, remains still a crucial reference point in Marxist theories of the law and critical legal theory. Its... Read more

1. What Was Pashukanis Seeking to Do With His Concept of ‘Legal Form’, and Does It Have Continuing Relevance?

Bill Bowring

 

2. Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors

Anna Lukina

 

3. On the Lithuanian Question: Contextualising Pashukanis’ Critique of the Legal Form

Eric Loefflad

 

4. Pašukanis on Ideology and The Juridical (A Note on The General Theory of Law And Marxism)

Rafał Mańko

 

5. Fetishes of Criminal Law: Reading Pashukanis with Hegel and de Lagasnerie

Linda Lilith Obermayr

 

6. Legal Subjectivity and Abstraction: Tracing the Past of the Legal Form

Gian-Giacomo Fusco

 

7. Exchange or Production?  Poulantzas on the Legal Form and Pashukanis

Daniel McLoughlin

 

8. Impossible Objects of Marxist Legal Theory of Law: The Limits of the Legal Form

Cosmin Cercel

 

Appendix: Hegel. State and Law (On the Centenary of his Death)

Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis

 

Biography

Cosmin Cercel is Professor of Legal History at Ghent University, Belgium.  

Gian-Giacomo Fusco is Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.

Przemysław Tacik is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland.