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1. HISTORIOGRAPHY, IDEOLOGY, AND LAW: AN INTRODUCTION
Author(s) -
DESAUTELSSTEIN JUSTIN,
MOYN SAMUEL
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/hith.12207
Subject(s) - historiography , ideology , law , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , legal history , epistemology , critical legal studies , sociology , history , philosophy , political science , politics , legal realism , comparative law , archaeology
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.