Legal intellectual movements in political time : reconstructive leadership and transformations of legal thought and discourse / Simon Zschirnt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zschirnt, Simon, 1979- author.

Series:

Law and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Political aspects--United States.

Law.

Law--United States--Philosophy.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zschirnt looks at the dynamics of change in the legal marketplace of ideas during three periods of political realignment (the 1980's, the 1930's, and the 1890's). Het analyzes patterns in legal scholarship in law reviews, trends in legal education and pedagogy, and major developments in legal thought and jurisprudence in order to assess how the embrace of revolutionary legal ideologies by presidents and other prominent political actors helped legitimate these ideologies during each period. His analysis indicates that the relationship between political support for new approaches to the law

Contents:

The cycles of political and legal time

Originalism and the new right regime

Legal realism and the New Deal regime

Legal formalism and the 4th party system's republican regime

Understanding the relationship between political and legal time.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Washington State University, School of Politics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2013) issued under title: The political foundations of legal theory : political realignment and the legal marketplace of ideas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59332-806-0

OCLC:

919201910