Critical Legal Studies and Legal Practice : The Concept of Legal Culture and of Law Practice as Cultural Intervention. Drawing upon the work of the critical legal studies movement in the United States, this paper argues that law should be understood as meaning-creating cultural activity and explores the implications of this perspective for social-change-oriented legal practice. The paper criticizes the overly technical analytical rationality that characterizes legal reasoning and shows the way that this « objective » conception of legal culture has undermined previous social movements when they have inevitably entered the legal arena. It argues for an approach to public-interest law practice that is emotional as well as cognitive, symbolic...