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12 - The Past as Authority and as Social Critic: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of History in Legal Argument*

from Part III - History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

Robert W. Gordon
Robert W. Gordon
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Stanford University, California
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[Unlike most of the other pieces in this collection, this one was written for an audience not of lawyers and legal scholars but of historians and social scientists. It resulted from an invitation to a conference organized in 1990 by the Program in Comparative Study in Social Transformations at the University of Michigan, a remarkable group of scholars from many different disciplines. Contributors to the conference were invited to speculate on the “turn” toward historical inquiry that seemed to be common to all these disciplines. This essay was written for that conference and the revised version of it published in Terrence J. McDonald (ed.), The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences (University of Michigan Press, 1996), 339–67.]

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Taming the Past
Essays on Law in History and History in Law
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