Taking contextual legal philosophy seriously: a feminist Nordic perspective

What if the contextual presumption central to feminist legal philosophy (FLP) is taken seriously? The objective of this synthesizing project is to bring consistency into the scholarly debate by being more sensitive to the outcomes of critical feminist encounters with the legal philosophical tradition. One central premise is the presumption that theories always interact with practice, i.e. theories are never out-of-context.

This presumption forms the backdrop of this project fulfilling a synthesize of my research pursued over some 30-years into a book on contemporary legal philosophy.

The content of the book is structured around the classical legal philosophical questions: (1) what is law, transformed to what law does, (2) how can we get knowledge about law, and (3) how can we legitimize the law. These questions are opened up to include reflections on law’s relations to other norm systems and to the context and practical life. One important presumption, that will permeate the book, is the view on the legal subject as a relational human being.

As an extra outcome I will, after finalizing the synthesizing project, also publish a text book in Swedish for students.