[Ads-l] Earliest Citation for "Critical Legal Studies"

[Shapiro, Fred]

critical legal studies

1975 _Learning and the Law_ (no.3) 41 (HeinOnline)  As professional law training is distinguished by its commitment to the existing legsl system, to the ideology of legalism that informs that system, and to the social order which the system and the ideology both serve, so is a critical legal studies distinguished by its freedom from these commitments and its consequent ability to provide a basis for analysis of the very thought structures which underpin the legalitic ethos.

Fred Shapiro

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