{"title":"Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique","authors":"TARA MULQUEEN","doi":"10.1111/jols.12552","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay offers a response to Dr Lizzy Willimington's article and a reflection on the history of critical and socio-legal studies. It points to critique as a normative question rather than a methodological one and discusses this idea through the history of legal needs and legal consciousness research. It draws on the insights of critical race theory to argue that there is no impasse between critical and socio-legal research and advances the idea of ‘multiple consciousness’ as critique.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 S1","pages":"S176-S181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12552","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Law and Society","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jols.12552","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay offers a response to Dr Lizzy Willimington's article and a reflection on the history of critical and socio-legal studies. It points to critique as a normative question rather than a methodological one and discusses this idea through the history of legal needs and legal consciousness research. It draws on the insights of critical race theory to argue that there is no impasse between critical and socio-legal research and advances the idea of ‘multiple consciousness’ as critique.
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Established as the leading British periodical for Socio-Legal Studies The Journal of Law and Society offers an interdisciplinary approach. It is committed to achieving a broad international appeal, attracting contributions and addressing issues from a range of legal cultures, as well as theoretical concerns of cross- cultural interest. It produces an annual special issue, which is also published in book form. It has a widely respected Book Review section and is cited all over the world. Challenging, authoritative and topical, the journal appeals to legal researchers and practitioners as well as sociologists, criminologists and other social scientists.