Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Critical Race Theory

1 A reform movement within the legal profession, particularly within academia, whose adherents believe that the legal system has disempowered racial minorities. 0 The term first appeared in 1989. Critical race theorists observe that even if the law it couched in neutral language, it cannot be neu tral because those who fashioned it had thei, own subjective perspectives that, once en shrined in law, have disadvantaged minorities and even perpetuated racism. 2. The body w work produced by adherents to this theory. Abbr. CRT.