Critical Legal Studies And The Campaign For American Law Schools

Author : Paul Baumgardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030823795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools written by Paul Baumgardner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Paul Baumgardner is Assistant Professor at Belmont University, USA, where he teaches in the Legal Studies Program and the Honors Program. Before arriving at Belmont, he completed a joint Ph.D. in the Department of Politics and the Humanities Council at Princeton University, USA.

Author : Paul Baumgardner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030823784
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools written by Paul Baumgardner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walter Olson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459612728
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools for Misrule written by Walter Olson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next.The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action lawsuits that promote the right to sue anyone over anything, to court orders mandating the mass release of prison inmates; from the movement for slavery reparations, to court takeovers of school funding-all of these appalling ideas were hatched in legal academia. And the worst is yet to come. A fast-rising movement in law schools demands that sovereignty over U.S. legal disputes be handed over to international law and transnational courts.It is not by coincidence, Olson argues, that these bad ideas all tend to confer more power on the law schools' own graduates. In the overlawyered society that results, they are the ones who become the real rulers.

Author : Clyde W. Barrow
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800375913
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science written by Clyde W. Barrow and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the disciplineÕs development over the last six decades.

Author : Mark Kelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674367562
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Critical Legal Studies written by Mark Kelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much writing in critical legal studies has been devoted to laying bare the contradictions in liberal thought. There have been attacks and counterattacks on the liberal position and on the more conservative law and economics position. Kelman demonstrates that any critique of law and economics is inextricably tied to a broader critique of liberalism.

Author : Stephen Gillers
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at Law School written by Stephen Gillers and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving prospective students an advance look at the process of legal education--the stresses and strains of attending law school as well as courses that are taught--this guide helps students decide not only what areas of law are of interest to them but whether, in fact, they are sure enough of their "vocation" to commit to the grueling, competitive, time-consuming, costly course of study.

Author : Meera E. Deo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429533918
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures written by Meera E. Deo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit) use their expertise to train those students to become lawyers. Based on original, empirical research, this book investigates this myth from myriad perspectives, diverse settings, and in different nations, revealing that hierarchies of power and cultural norms shape and maintain inequities in legal education. Embedded within law school cultures are assumptions that also stymie efforts at reform. The book examines hidden pedagogical messages, showing how presumptions about theory’s relation to practice are refracted through the obfuscating lens of curricula. The contributors also tackle questions of class and market as they affect law training. Finally, this collection examines how structural barriers replicate injustice even within institutions representing themselves as democratic and open, revealing common dynamics across cultural and institutional forms. The chapters speak to similar issues and to one another about the influence of context, images of law and lawyers, the political economy of legal education, and the agency of students and faculty.

Author : Raymond Wacks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191510645
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction written by Raymond Wacks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, and judges. Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy with clarity and enthusiasm, providing an enlightening guide to the central questions of legal theory. In this revised edition Wacks makes a number of updates including new material on legal realism, changes to the approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updates to historical and anthropological jurisprudence. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Walter K. Olson
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594032335
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools for Misrule written by Walter K. Olson and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some imagine that the law schools possess a finer, purer moral sensitivity than the everyday America outside their walls. ("Welcome to the Republic of Conscience!" Yale Law dean Harold Koh announced to incoming students.) But as this book shows the pipe dream of training philosopher-monarchs not only leads to one policy disaster after another, but distracts law schools from the most useful function they can serve: training competent, ethical and suitably humble lawyers for tomorrow. --Book Jacket.

Author : Duncan Kennedy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814748058
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy written by Duncan Kennedy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-known 'underground' classic critique of legal education is available for the first time in book form. This edition contains commentary by leading legal educations.