ABSTRACT
Law is a form of discourse especially aligned to power in that the state is uniquely authorised to generate those forms of legal discourse conventionally recognised as law, such as legislation and judgments (Post 1991). This chapter considers CDS scholarship that enters questions and issues of law through state law’s conventional sites and texts to demonstrate the inextricable enmeshments of law, language, and power. It also reviews scholarship that applies CDS to discourses of legitimacy that (arguably) appear in the place of conventional legal discourse in post-9/11 contexts.
