Surely something good has been written about the deep precursors of Critical Legal Studies, the prehistory of #CLS?https://twitter.com/ChMadar/status/809109904057364480 …
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There's a fair bit of good work on legal realism as the main precursor of the US strand of CLS (e.g. Duxbury's Patterns of American
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Jurisprudence). But the stuff that stretches the critique of legal "coherence" and "determinacy" further back tends on the whole to
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be superficial. Of course, the key "precursor" is Marxism. But aside from casual references to "On the Jewish Question" and
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"The German Ideology", and "see generally"-style citations of Lukacs and Althusser in the classic CLS texts, there isn't much work
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here. Not really good work, at any rate. China Miéville's book on international law is the most ambitious attempt to marry US CLS
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to the classic Marxist (in his case, Pashukanisian) critique of legal form that I am aware of.
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I should add that
@samuelmoyn has (very rightly) been calling for more work on the intellectual history of CLS for some time now.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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