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Legal Modernism, David Luban
Legal Modernism, David Luban
Michigan Law Review
What are the roots of Critical Legal Studies? "The immediate intellectual background . . . is the . . . achievement of early twentieth century modernism ... ," writes Roberto Unger in his CLS manifesto; he elaborates this modernist connection in his deep and subtle book Passion. Other CLS members also draw parallels between their endeavor and artistic modernism.
Obviously, CLS is first and foremost a movement of left-leaning legal scholars; it is also associated with distinctive theoretical claims about law. But it should be equally obvious that CLS involves sensibilities and affinities that are strikingly similar to those …