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Legal intellectual movements in political time : reconstructive leadership and transformations of legal thought and discourse

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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 sch...

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

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