Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance

Simon, William

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2162505

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Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance

William H. Simon

Columbia University - Law School; Stanford Law School

October 15, 2012

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-319

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This brief essay suggests that the discursive practices associated with Critical Legal Studies and related movements have prescriptive implications for institutional design. The essay, a contribution to a festschrift for David M. Trubek, considers the trajectory of Trubek’s work from his engagement with various critical projects to his recent sympathetic interpretation of “new governance” in the European Union. The tacit prescriptive implications of the critical work resonate with some of the distinctive institutional features found in new governance.

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Date posted: October 18, 2012

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Simon, William H., Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance (October 15, 2012). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-319. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2162505 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2162505

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Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance

William H. Simon

Date posted: October 18, 2012

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William H. Simon (Contact Author)