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Public law, knowledge and explanation: a critique on the facilitative nature of public law analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2007

Barbara Mauthe
Barbara Mauthe*
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Law School, Lancaster University
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine why public law is able to incorporate political theory but excludes feminist critiques. In order to achieve this goal a form of discourse analysis will be undertaken using epistemological and scientific perceptions of knowledge and explanation. This approach is both unusual and unique but will illustrate some of the exclusionary suppositions which underpin analysis within public law. The paper will conclude that only by adopting an alternative starting point for analysis, such as the use of concepts, will public law be able to incorporate alternative and critical approaches.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 377 - 392
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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