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Redefining Radicalism: A Historical Perspective, Walter J. Walsh Jan 1991

Redefining Radicalism: A Historical Perspective, Walter J. Walsh

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This Essay suggests that Unger's attack on formalism and objectivism is not so new. After noting the early contributions of Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham, it does so by particular reference to the critique of William Sampson (1764-1836), the banished Irish civil rights lawyer and political activist, who led an intellectual charge upon the American common law more than a century and a half ago. It also suggests that by depicting the common law as incompatible with the egalitarian ideal of a democratic republic, Sampson sowed the seeds of a distinct radical tradition of which the critical legal studies movement …


Escape From Liberalism: Fact And Value In Karl Llewellyn, Kenneth M. Casebeer Jan 1977

Escape From Liberalism: Fact And Value In Karl Llewellyn, Kenneth M. Casebeer

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