The rise and fall of classical legal thought : with a new preface by the author, "thirty years later"

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The rise and fall of classical legal thought : with a new preface by the author, "thirty years later"

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with a new preface by the author, "thirty years later"

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Duncan Kennedy

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• Kennedy, Duncan, 1942-

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• Jurisprudence -- United States
• Law (Philosophical concept)
• Law -- Social aspects -- United States

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eng

Summary

Legal historian G. Edward White recently described it as the "most widely circulated and cited unpublished manuscript in twentieth-century American legal scholarship since Hart & Sacks' Legal Process materials." It began the re-evaluation of law in the Gilded Age, and gave it its current name of Classical Legal Thought. It was also one of the first and most influential of the works that introduced European critical theory and structuralism into the study of American law. This reprint comes with a substantial new Introduction that puts the work in context and relates it to current scholarship in the field. It should interest historians generally as well as readers curious about how our legal system got its special modern character --

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non fiction