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	Ανάλυση Κρίσιμης Νομολογίας	Ανάλυση Λόγου
Πεδίο	Μέθοδοι Πεδίου	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	Late 1970s–1980s (CLS conference 1977; Unger 1983)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Δημιουργός	Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement; key figures include Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Unger, Mark Tushnet	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Τύπος	Qualitative legal research approach	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Unger, R. M. (1983). The Critical Legal Studies Movement. Harvard Law Review, 96(3), 561–675.	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	critical legal analysis, CLS case analysis, critical judicial analysis, critical legal reading	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Συναφείς	6	2
Σύνοψη	Critical case law analysis applies the theoretical tools of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to the examination of judicial decisions. Rather than accepting legal reasoning at face value, this approach interrogates how courts construct legal arguments, whose interests those arguments serve, and how ideological commitments are concealed beneath the appearance of neutral doctrinal logic. It exposes the political and social dimensions embedded in judicial language and outcomes.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.