‘A few practical things’: The Redress of Law and the irritation of (critical) constitutional theory

Abstract

This Article discusses Emilios Christodoulidis’s The Redress of Law as a major contribution to contemporary critical constitutional theory, with a focus on its relationship with other lines of critical thought; with systems theory and societal constitutionalism; and with legal pluralism and the global constitutionalism discourses. It argues that the most valuable contribution of The Redress of Law lies in its capacity to innovate current theoretical discourses, too often closed in on their conceptual assumptions, in turn modelled on liberal political theory.

Keywords

• Critical legal theory
• constitutional theory
• systems theory
• societal constitutionalism
• global constitutionalism