Critical Legal Studies
- ISBN-10
- 0814712223
- ISBN-13
- 9780814712221
- Series
- Critical Legal Studies
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 602
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-12-01
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- James Boyle
Description
This volume surveys the current state of the critical Legal Studies movement- a fifteen year old initiative whose proponents are committed to building a strong progrsseve community inside law schools and the legal profession. In his introduciton, Boyle argues that CLS has succeeded because it analyzes the inadequacies of rights talk, technocracy, and law and economics, and because it connects theory with the everyday experiences of lawyers and legal scholars. Articles present the CLS perspective on legal reasoning, legal hisory, substantive law, legal practice, and social theory.
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- 1993-04-11
- 206 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
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