Legal Intellectual Movements in Political Time: Reconstructive Leadership and Transformations of Legal Thought and Discourse (Law and Society)

Simon Zschirnt

ISBN 10: 1593328001 / ISBN 13: 9781593328009

Published by Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Legal Intellectual Movements in Political Time: Reconstructive Leadership and Transformations of Legal Thought and Discourse (Law and Society)
• Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593328001
• ISBN 13: 9781593328009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Zschirnt looks at the dynamics of change in the legal marketplace of ideas during three periods of political realignment (the 1980s, the 1930s, and the 1890s). He 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 and changes in the legal marketplace of ideas has not been constant over time but rather has been contingent upon a number of contextual factors.

About the Author

Simon Zschirnt is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Texas A&M International University. His research interests are in the areas of American legal history, American political behavior, constitutional law, and judicial politics. His work has appeared in Political Behavior, International Criminal Justice Review, and in several edited volumes. He earned his PhD from Washington State University.