1. HISTORIOGRAPHY, IDEOLOGY, AND LAW: AN INTRODUCTION

JUSTIN DESAUTELS-STEIN AND SAMUEL MOYN

Forum: Historiography, Ideology, and Law

Volume 60, Number 2 (2021)

This is an introduction to a forum on historiography, ideology, and law. The basic question weaving this forum together concerns the meaning of the term “critical” in the domain of critical legal history, a question that is deeply familiar to historians of all stripes. Ultimately, whether you are a lawyer doing historical work, a historian interested in law, or a historian of a different sort altogether, there is no hiding from the question of context and, critically, the ideological stakes in choosing an answer to that question.

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