Bill,
Do you mean writings by Marx related to legal issues? One of Marx's
earliest works was "The Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' which
concerns Hegel's theory of the state and law. Lukacs wrote an essay on
"Legality and Illegality" but this is situated well within CP discourse.
For more contemporary stuff there is a lot written about the state in
marxist and marxist inspiredl iterature. Of course the genesis of private
property is central to the entire marxist/socialist project. I personally
like the more historical stuff: Thompson's essays on the transformation of
inheritance rights in the course of industrialization, Perry Anderson stuff
on the lineage of the absolutist state. Thompson's critique of Althusser:
The Poverty of Theory is excellent for situating the entire issue of
"infrastructure/superstructure" (where law is part of the super structure)
in perspective. All of this is pretty dated because I haven't kept up with
that literature . . . Law and History Review often had good articles in
this direction.
Once I came across an entire literature of marxist criminology while doing a
project with the Los Angeles Community College District and the LAPD to
explore "community based policing" (this just after the Rodney King related
riots). That was fascinating but also a while back and I don't have any
handy references.
Paul H. Dillon
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