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

[Emily Gordon]

I have proximity to expertise on this! My father, Robert W. Gordon (now at
Stanford Law School), was one of the originators of CLS at SUNY Buffalo in
the early '70s. I forwarded Fred's citation to him, and he wrote: "I don’t
think there could be a cite before 1975, because there wasn’t a CLS thing
before then!"

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Excellent citation. My memory was jogged and I found this from 2021:
>
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2021-November/160672.html
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 9:41 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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> > 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):
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> > 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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