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The article offers a brief history of the Critical Legal Conference and the emergence of general jurisprudence as a main theoretical school in legal scholarship. It charts the aesthetic, ethical and the current political phase of the school. In the current situation of economic and political crisis, the intellectual and the critic is called to abandon the facile position of neutrality and assume the responsibility of resistance and radical change.
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Douzinas, C. A Short History of the British Critical Legal Conference or, the Responsibility of the Critic. Law Critique 25, 187–198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-014-9133-9
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