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

[Shapiro, Fred]

The  OED does not have an entry for the term "Critical Legal Studies," but perhaps it should have one.  Here is the earliest citation I have found (there are earlier coincidental uses of these words with different meanings):

1975 Peter d'Errico in Learning and the Law 2 (3): 41/2 (HeinOnline)

As professional law training is distinguished by its commitment to the existing legal 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 legalistic ethos.

Fred Shapiro





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