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The 1960s and 1970s in the United States and in Europe were decades of political activism in which liberal, progressive, and radical movements formed loose coalitions to challenge racism, sexism, and increasing state militarism. In the U.S., the civil rights movement was perhaps the catalyst, but an increasingly visible and vocal feminist movement soon added its strength. Opposition to the Vietnam War mobilized large numbers of people and radicalized many of them. It also sowed seeds of disillusionment. Liberal and progressive activists, lawyers and legal scholars among them, looked to the law and the courts for social change. However, in the late 1970s, the slow pace, the apparently superficial nature of the changes, and the support for a disastrous war of a liberal political establishment, led many in the legal academy to turn their critical energies on the law itself.
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Postema, G.J. (2011). Critical Jurisprudence and the Rule of Law. In: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8960-1_6
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