Critical Legal Studies (Law and Legal Series)

This volume surveys the current state of the Critical Legal Studies movement- a fifteen year old initiative whose proponents are committed to building a strong progressive community inside law schools and the legal profession. In his introduciton, Boyle argues that CLS succeeded, to some extent, because it analyzed the inadequacies of rights talk, technocracy, and law and economics, and because it connected theory with the everyday experiences of lawyers and legal scholars. Articles present the CLS perspective on legal reasoning, legal hisory, substantive law, legal practice, and social theory.