Trashing the Tables: The Critical Legal Studies Symposium of the Stanford Law Review, Then and Now

Paul Baumgardner ()
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Paul Baumgardner: Department of Political Science, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL 61201, USA

Laws, 2024, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-12

Abstract: When the critical legal studies (CLS) movement emerged in the United States, many in the legal community were shocked by the movement’s radical calls to remake legal education. But the movement also presented bold criticisms of quantitative legal scholarship and calculation in law that have proven remarkably prophetic. This article resuscitates the CLS movement’s concerns over “scientific law” in one of the movement’s most canonical works: the Critical Legal Studies Symposium issue of the Stanford Law Review in 1984. Along the way, this article explores the scope and limits of CLS admonitions regarding quantitative research and legal problem solving for the present day.

Keywords: critical legal studies; law and science; legal education; empiricism; progressivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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