‘Reification and Tilt in the Critique of Trusts’

‘Power, Property and the Law of Trusts: A Partial Agenda for Critical Legal Scholarship’ was written in the mid-1980s when the American critical legal studies (CLS) movement was flourishing. Parallel but differently oriented movements were also developing in the UK and various continental European countries. In that context, the essay criticised the orientation of American CLS, arguing that critical legal scholarship should be linked closely with social scientific studies of law and not confined (as American CLS mainly was) to being a law school movement … (more)

[Roger Cotterrell, Critical Legal Thinking, 26 November 2024]

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