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Critical legal studies (CLS) is a liberal movement of law professors founded in 1977 at a conference at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]].<ref>http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Critical_legal_theory</ref>  Its central belief is that the logic and structure of law actually is no more than attempts by the powerful in society to oppress the lower classes.  The law simply perpetuates and legitimizes societal injustices, and the rich use the law as an instrument for oppression.  CLS advocates view law as politics, and insist that it is absurd to view the law as being neutral or value free.  CLS supporters seek to change the law in order to remake the structures of society.  

'''Critical legal studies''' (CLS) is a liberal movement of law professors founded in 1977 at a conference at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]].<ref>http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Critical_legal_theory</ref>  Its central belief is that the logic and structure of law actually is no more than attempts by the powerful in society to oppress the lower classes.  The law simply perpetuates and legitimizes societal injustices, and the rich use the law as an instrument for oppression.  CLS advocates view law as politics, and insist that it is absurd to view the law as being neutral or value free.  CLS supporters seek to change the law in order to remake the structures of society.  

CLS theorists include Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz, Duncan Kennedy, and Katharine A. MacKinnon.  The movement was thriving at Harvard Law School in the late 1980s until traditional faculty members succeeded in denying tenure to at least one member of the CLS movement.

CLS theorists include Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz, Duncan Kennedy, and Katharine A. MacKinnon.  The movement was thriving at Harvard Law School in the late 1980s until traditional faculty members succeeded in denying tenure to at least one member of the CLS movement.