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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 tenet is that the logic and structure of law are actually no more than a means by which the powerful in society 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.  
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'''Critical legal studies''' (CLS) is a movement of law.
  
 
Today there are splinter groups within or without CLS that include feminist legal theory and critical race theory (CRT).<ref>http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~jp49/</ref>
 
Today there are splinter groups within or without CLS that include feminist legal theory and critical race theory (CRT).<ref>http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~jp49/</ref>

Revision as of 22:28, December 28, 2011

Critical legal studies (CLS) is a movement of law.

Today there are splinter groups within or without CLS that include feminist legal theory and critical race theory (CRT).[1]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~jp49/
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