Critical legal studies

Mark Tushnet stated “critical legal studies is a sustained attack on all types of formalism.”1 In the late 1970s a group of like minded left wing scholars came together at a conference and created a movement known as Critical Legal Studies (CLS). Their anti-establishment polemic attack opposed the legal orthodoxy of formalist legal doctrine. This essay will critically evaluate how the CLS movement challenged formalism. Firstly exploring the CLS challenge to the scientific approach of formalism, then considering their view on indeterminacy and the methods they used to reveal this. The concept of contradictions will be analysed and discussed with some examples. Finally in considering the different aspects of the essay draw conclusions of their challenge to formalism. Veitch states “Formalism is a theory about how law does contain within its formal, systematic structure all answers to the questions that can be posed in law and legal argument.”2 The essence of formalism assumes that the answers to legal disputes can be deduced and…

Fuller further develops this functional understanding, that is neo-natural law. Fullers argument is that a system of law without formal justice, and the rule of law, would be impossible. Fuller 's argument does not fully embrace Aquinas ' standard that an unjust law, is not law it all. Instead, Fuller states that you can still have a legal system with some laws that are unjust, but the system, viewed in entirety, is still just (Fuller 11). Fuller furthers the argument in The Case of the…

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interpretation of the law becomes superhuman, relying on the assumption there is coherence in the communities previous decisions. This is something the community should consider when proceeding. The Community also places importance on the court developing legal principles over time through common law. This can be somewhat linked to Dworkin’s Literary analogy. This idea would require judges in the community to have considerable discretion. This emphasises the importance of the development of…

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