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Scott Veitch, "Law and "Other" Problems", Law
and Critique VIII/1 (1997), 97-109: While certain strands of postmodern
thinking about law seek to reinstate ethical concerns at the core of jurisprudence,
there is nevertheless a tendency too easily to replicate several of the
assumptions of modernity it claims to move beyond. Concentrating in particular
on the ethics of alterity, itself not a novel focus, it falls prey to several
of the dichotomies and categories of liberal legalism. As such it is not
surprising that it is often accused of a conservative inertia. To hold to
the insights of difference postmodernists espouse, requires not simply attention
to the form of law, but its relative positioning and role as a source of
obligation, and to a rethinking of the law-ethics relation as part of an
institutional critique of law.
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