Ep. 1343 From Blackstone to Marxism: The Strange Journey of American Legal Thought


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Feb 15 2019 36 mins   20
Stephen Presser and I go from William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England played such a central role in influencing early American ideas about the law, all the way to the Marxist-inspired Critical Legal Studies movement, the feminist legal critique, and back again to the originalism movement.