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Introduction to Symposium on “Critical Legal Histories”: Robert W. Gordon. 1984. Critical Legal Histories. Stanford Law Review 36:57–125

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Hendrik Hartog
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Abstract

This introduction to a symposium on Robert Gordon's classic article “Critical Legal Histories” (1984) suggests that the article should be read in the first instance as a response to the distinctive historical and jurisprudential currents of the 1980s, even as it also remains a work that continues to challenge legal historians working today, a generation later.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , Winter 2012 , pp. 147 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2012 

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