Ep. 1343 From Blackstone to Marxism: The Strange Journey of American Legal Thought

Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 10 p.m.

Stephen Presser and I go from William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England played such a central role in influencing early American ideas about the law, all the way to the Marxist-inspired Critical Legal Studies movement, the feminist legal critique, and back again to the originalism movement.