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Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. [1] CLS adherents claim that laws are devised to maintain the status quo of society and thereby codify its biases against marginalized groups .
Mark Victor Tushnet (born 18 November 1945) [1] is an American legal scholar. He specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law, and is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. [2] Tushnet is identified with the critical legal studies movement. [3]
The Critical Legal Studies Movement is a book by the philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger.First published in 1983 as an article in the Harvard Law Review, published in book form in 1986, and reissued with a new introduction in 2015, The Critical Legal Studies Movement is a principal document of the American critical legal studies movement that supplied the book with its title.
Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. [87] CLS adherents claim that laws are devised to maintain the status quo of society and thereby codify its biases against marginalized groups .
Louis Michael Seidman (born 1947) is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C..He is a constitutional law scholar and major proponent of the critical legal studies movement.
Duncan Kennedy (born 1942) is an American legal scholar and held the Carter Professorship of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School until 2015. Now emeritus, he is best known as one of the founders of the critical legal studies movement.
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.
Peller was one of the central figures at the Conference on Critical Legal Studies. With Kimberlé Crenshaw, Peller co-authored a widely cited article, "The Contradictions of Mainstream Constitutional Theory", published in the UCLA Law Review, and co-edited one of the standard texts in critical race theory.
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