Book Review: Michael Giudice, Social Construction of Law: Potential and Limits

That law is socially constructed is so ubiquitous a statement in law and the humanities as to render itself dangerously close to 'common sense'. The subheading 'Potential and Limits' is the key to Giudice's original argument in which he suggests that law is both socially constructed; yet retains a 'natural' core. When teaching critical theory, I encourage students to examine anything they understand as 'common sense' as a potential blind spot for bias and assumptions deeply ingrained in ideology. As such, the attempt to examine exactly such a potential blind spot is exactly the sort of problem legal philosophy should seek to address. Full text also available via Informit