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“Critical Legal Thought: An American-German Debate” An Introduction at the Occasion of Its Republication in the German Law Journal 25 Years Later

Looking Back and to the Left: From the Bremen Conference to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

David M. Trubek

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It is not easy to remember the thoughts and feelings that accompanied the American contingent's participation in the 1986 Bremen conference and which led to this volume. Time has eroded memories. But more than that, there is no single “American” set of thoughts and feelings to recall. Although we shared a desire to explore critical legal thought with colleagues from Germany, we were, in fact, a very heterogeneous group. We came together — momentarily — for the Bremen conference but we approached it from different perspectives, participated from different motives, and went different ways in the years after the publication of the book.

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German Law Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1: Critical Legal Thought: An American-German Debate—Republication [with a new Introduction] Twenty-Five Years Later — , 01 January 2011 , pp. 28 - 33
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Copyright © 2011 by German Law Journal GbR 

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