Radicalism and Responsibility : An Introduction to Unbound

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  • Brishen Rogers
  • Duncan Kennedy
چکیده

It no longer seems revolutionary to say, as Duncan Kennedy did over twenty years ago, that “Law schools are intensely political places.”1 As Kennedy himself argues in this issue of Unbound, today’s law professors “have correctly and honestly internalized the irreducible political element in law,” and accordingly law faculties feature a rich pluralism of overlapping and conflicting methodologies, political positions, and legal-theoretical commitments. But has this pedagogical shift done much to make these three years a less alienating or painful experience? We’re not so sure. Law school still trains us to see ourselves as technicians rather than agents; operatives rather than entrepreneurs; managers rather than provocateurs. Many students who arrive with visions of using the law as a tool for social transformation become quickly disillusioned and pessimistic about the possibilities for change, eventually leaving with a diminished sense of agency and an undefined sense of loss for ideals that, in the context of an inflexible system, have come to seem naïve. Our own alienation led us to seek an intellectual home in Unbound, and to change its subtitle and mission. In doing so, we hope not only to articulate our discomfort with the law school experience but also to establish a community for other students, academics, and practitioners who share similar political commitments. This introduction is a limited, tentative attempt to explain why we’ve chosen to rename this a “Journal of the Legal Left.” We’ll leave the heavy legal theory to the legal theorists we’ve published. In addition, we will not attempt to encapsulate the ideas of our authors here; they speak quite eloquently for themselves. Rather, we discuss how contemporary legal thought and pedagogy shape the law school experience generally and cause students to lose their sense

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تاریخ انتشار 2005