...Finding scant mention of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) death, this chapter creates an argument for why this death is vital to understanding CLS. Drawing from Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, Francis Fukuyama’s end of history, Hamlet, and A Christmas Carol, a way to conceptualise the death of CLS...

..., and a recognition of the need to share that prosperity with those for whom industrialisation and urbanisation had not been an unqualified success. Father Christmas/Santa Claus does not feature in the key ideological text of the new invention, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The enormous...

...This chapter provides readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Bleak House that responds to a critical tradition which sees philanthropy as a failed effort to transform the system, ultimately acting in concert with supervisory institutions...