Critical Legal Histories
Critical Legal Histories
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重要法律史
DOI：
10.1017/9781108147668.014
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发表时间：
1984
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
R. Gordon
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作者：
R. Gordon
批判性的法律作家非常关注历史。事实上，他们可能花了更多的篇幅描述历史--特别是法律教义的思想史--比其他任何东西，甚至是法律和经济学都要多。在一场激进运动中如此专注，乍一看是令人惊讶的。毕竟，按照臭名昭著的习惯，律师们保守地使用历史，呼吁延续和传统。在不太常见的情况下，律师利用历史来批评现状，他们通常诉诸社会和经济史，以表明法律规则的原始社会背景表明，它是出于邪恶或过时的原因而采用的，而不是法律教义的历史。2关于重写教义的历史，什么可能是激进的--或者，正如一些人不友好地问的那样，甚至是有趣的？在这篇文章中，我将试图简要描述促使批判性学者选择历史(或者更确切地说，历史，因为这场运动实际上催生了几种不同的史学实践)的写作方式的冲动。我将从试图描述历史上法律的愿景开始，正如我将
Critical legal writers pay a lot of attention to history. In fact, they have probably devoted more pages to historical descriptionparticularly the intellectual history of legal doctrine-than to anything else, even law and economics. Such a preoccupation within a radical movement is at first glance surprising. After all, lawyers have, by notorious custom, used history conservatively, appealing to continuity and tradition.' And in the less common situations in which lawyers have used history to criticize the status quo, they have usually resorted to social and economic history, to show that the original social context of a legal rule reveals it was adopted for wicked or obsolete reasons, rather than to the history of legal doctrine.2 What could conceivably be radical-or, as some unkindly ask, even interesting-about rewriting the history of doctrine? I will attempt, in this article, to give a brief account of the impulses that have prompted the Critical scholars to their chosen ways of writing history (or rather histories, since the movement has actually spawned several different historiographical practices). I'll start by trying to describe a vision of law-in-history that has tended, as I'll