Critical Legal Studies Movement Summary

The Critical Legal Studies movement started in Madison, Wisconsin with a small group of friends who were not your usual left-leaning activist. They challenged the status quo. The group eventually grew into a movement which spread to many law schools and transcended into the ideology on many. The central theme to the Critical Legal Studies was the opposite of the average liberal lawyer. The belief was the law should be carefully interpreted and the rhetoric of the law should be taken very seriously. Legal discourse as explained in this article as actions or routines in everyday life that keep the law active in its official role and unofficial role. Legal discourse can be described also as a highly specialized language in which the language …show more content…
It also talks about the average person who don’t wield the power to change legal discourse. They are described as ones’ who are struggling to enact the change they must rely on those who possess the power to control the laws and legal discourse. Ultimately, this section of the article is referring to how the lawyers, lobbyists, corporations, governors and political superpower of the world can push their agenda of what they feel should be the legal discourse of their society and forget the average people which plays in to the narrative of the Crits central theme that the legal discourse in this country should focus more on creating a more humane and democratic society which serves all. The author goes on to stress the importance of legal discourse in the sense that it along with external forces outside of legal discourse help keep the social order in the markets, workforce and hierarchy it supports. This goes to the original point that Crits stress why the importance of how the laws are written and how they are interpret will affect the legal discourse the society under which they are