Critical legal studies and the campaign for American Law Schools : a revolution to break the liberal consensus / Paul Baumgardner.
2021
KF380 .B38 2021
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Title
Critical legal studies and the campaign for American Law Schools : a revolution to break the liberal consensus / Paul Baumgardner.
Author
Baumgardner, Paul, author.
ISBN
9783030823788 (electronic book)
3030823784 (electronic book)
9783030823771
3030823776
3030823784 (electronic book)
9783030823771
3030823776
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 114 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-82378-8 doi
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KF380 .B38 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
349.73
Summary
"Recent political science research into the American legal academy has been captured by conservatism - this research has framed the institutional and ideological developments occurring within the law schools over the past forty years solely through the prism of modern conservatism. As a result, political scientists have ignored the political struggles of one of the most important legal reform movements of the 1980s and overlooked the hope for leftist reform that existed within American law schools during this period. Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools tells the story of the critical legal studies movement. This formidable movement sought to fundamentally reconstruct law schools, train a new generation of leftist lawyers, and replace the dominant form of legal consciousness governing the American legal system. Instead of projecting a fatalism onto leftist reform, this book relies on extensive archival research and interviews to illuminate the radical potential that lived in the American legal academy of the 1980s. The critical legal studies movement was a towering presence in the law schools, and its legacy continues to hold out political possibilities and reform lessons for leftist legal scholars today"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents
Moving beyond conservative capture
The birth of the CLS movement
The promise of CLS retrenchment
Towards influence and institutionalization
Retrenchment repelled
Critical lessons and the campaign that continues.
The birth of the CLS movement
The promise of CLS retrenchment
Towards influence and institutionalization
Retrenchment repelled
Critical lessons and the campaign that continues.