Critical Legal Studies

Schlag, Pierre

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Critical Legal Studies

Pierre Schlag

University of Colorado Law School

June 30, 2010

THE OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY, Vol. 295, Stanley N. Katz, ed., 2009

Abstract:
This brief encyclopedia entry, written for the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, discusses the origins and implications of critical legal studies as a political movement and an intellectual tendency. The entry attempts to chart the intellectual forerunners, the intellectual contributions, the politics, and the legacies of critical legal studies. It also describes the attacks on cls and the anti-intellectual consequences of these attacks for the American legal academy.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 6

Keywords: critical legal studies, critical theory, liberal legalism, dissent, McCarthyism

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Date posted: July 2, 2010

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Schlag, Pierre, Critical Legal Studies (June 30, 2010). THE OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY, Vol. 295, Stanley N. Katz, ed., 2009 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1632981

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