Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools: A Revolution to Break the Liberal Consensus

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Moving Beyond Conservative Capture
	Conservative Capture
	The Critical Legal Studies Movement
	Why Chronicle the Crits?
2 The Birth of the CLS Movement
	Making the Movement: Origins, Timing, and Collective Formation
		“The Situation”
		Settling on a Collective Identity
		Mass Movement Wing
		School of Thought
		Legal Movement
3 The Promise of CLS Retrenchment
	Reviewing Retrenchment
	Transforming Anti-liberalism into Retrenchment
	Retrenching the Legal Academy
	“Where the Real Political Action Is”
4 Towards Influence and Institutionalization
	The Fem-Crits
	A Revolution on the Rise
	What About the Reagan Revolution?
5 Retrenchment Repelled
	The Media and Expanding the Zone of Conflict
	The Professional Expectations and Self-Understandings Cultivated Among Law Professors, or: The Defense of Faith, Manners, and Professionalism
	Condemning the Crits
	“Politics, All the Way Down”
6 Critical Lessons and the Campaign That Continues
	Moving Beyond the 1980s
	Lessons—Activist and Academic
Index