Best books critiquing the legal system from a CLS POV

GRMA · 2013-03-29 22:28:10

Read "The Politics of Law - A Progressive Critique" - ed David Kairys Thinking of getting this too http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/unger/english/pdfs/movemnt1.pdf Anyone recommend other books like this? Others from a more broader leftist or marxist pov would be good also. Not looking for rebuttals of this POV btw but…

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Read "The Politics of Law - A Progressive Critique" - ed David Kairys

Thinking of getting this too http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/unger/english/pdfs/movemnt1.pdf

Anyone recommend other books like this? Others from a more broader leftist or marxist pov would be good also.

Not looking for rebuttals of this POV btw but rather ones advocating it.

Thanks for any help.

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From the textbooks I've looked at on Jurisprudence (Penner and Wacks), the latter seemed more sympathetic to the CLS POV, and he was rather scathing on Posner's Law and economics.

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