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+==Legalism K== |
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+====The legal system is fundamentally flawed—the law is seen as necessary and perfect, but allows for oppression and suffering. Shortcomings of laws cannot be solved with minor adjustments—they grant legitimacy to a flawed system. Gordon '87:==== |
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+**Robert W. Gordon, Professor of Law at Stanford University. "Unfreezing Legal Reality: Critical Approaches to Law", Florida State University Law Review (15 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 195), 1987. ** |
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+Now a central tenet of CLS work has been that the ordinary discourses of law |
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+taking collective action against evil without suffering the greater evil of despotic power. |
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+====The history of qualified immunity court decisions shows how each attempt to create more sound civil rights litigation procedures ends up inadvertently expanding protection for police officers. Layering temporalities, creating legal time frames, and replacing bright line rules with balancing tests prove how every single immunity reform just creates larger legal indeterminacy. The affirmative simply adds onto that indeterminacy turning case. Feldman '15==== |
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+**Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity Leonard Feldman Hunter College, CUNY. 2015** |
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+My argument in this section is that the Supreme Court has created a legal grey |
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+determination of "qualified immunity," which I discuss in the next section. |
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+====The Aff's appeal to civil liberties is a façade that only furthers the state's biopolitical control over the population—destroys rights and turns case. Anders '13==== |
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+**Anders 13, Abram Anders is an Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth, nearest date given is 2013, "Foucault and "the Right to Life": From Technologies of Normalization to Societies of Control," **http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3340/3268**, NN** |
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+The essential and unavoidable problem with rights discourse is that it appeals to a liberal |
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+functional impairment as an essential pre-condition for legal findings about disability." |
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+====Legal reforms hurt social justice– starting from the perspective of legal solutions forecloses the political imaginary and hampers radical solutions—turns the aff Kandaswamy '12==== |
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+**Kandaswamy 12 (Priya Kandaswamy; Associate Professor Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; "THE OBLIGATIONS OF FREEDOM AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL EQUALITY" SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW Vol. 41, pg 265, 1/21/2012)** |
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+Despite a vast array of critiques that have elucidated the ways in which the U |
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+could look like and locate legal interventions in relation to this broader vision. |
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+====The alternative is a counter-reading of the harms of the 1AC. We REFUSE their faith in policy stories. Legalism underpins the violence of empire and creates the conditions of possibility for liberal violence. Dossa '99==== |
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+**Dossa '99 Shiraz, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, "Liberal Legalism: Law, Culture and Identity," The European Legacy, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 73-87,1** |
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+No discipline in the rationalized arsenal of modernity is as rational, impartial, objective |
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+liberal law but the juridically and humanly inferior Other, the perpetual foreigner. |
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+====We ought to prioritize movements for deconstructive resistance over blind faith in legal studies. Only the alt can effectively contest domestic cultures of violence. Hirst '15==== |
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+**Hirst '15 (Aggie ~~She~~, Lecturer in International Politics @ City University London, "Derrida and Political Resistance: The Radical Potential of Deconstruction" Globalizations, Vol. 12.1)** |
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+There are many manifestations of the practical consequences of deconstructive resistance across a range of |
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+commitments, dealing with difference in terms and contexts other than the familiar. |