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13 Liverpool L. Rev. 3 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr13 and id is 1 raw text is: The Liverpool Law Review Vol. XIII(1) [1991] 3 A CRITICAL LEGAL STUDY OF PROPERTY IN LAND S.E. Salako' The Critical Legal Studies Movement is perhaps no more than a passing fashion. But one ought not to assess arguments by guessing whether they portend the move of the future or a mere footnote for historians.I 1. Introduction An eschatology of the present standing of the Critical Legal Studies Movement whether it is articulated by a sympathetic critic2 or a thrashed thrasher3 does not affect the movement in the hagia- rchy of jurisprudence. One must wait and see whether the theory evolves an adequate interpretation of the world which is capable of shaping a new social reality. However, in the heated controversy generated by Professor Unger's address to the Sixth Annual Conference on the movement held at Harvard Law School in 1982,4 hostile gut reactions replaced guarded respectful responses; passionate political and cultural evaluations supplanted balanced intellectual assessment.5 In the words of a reflective legal philosopher: * LL.M. (London), ACTS, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria; Lecturer in Law, Liverpool Polytechnic. 1 J.M. Finnis, On The Critical Legal Studies Movement, in J. Eekelaar and J. Bell, eds., Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, 3rd Series, Clarendon Press, 1987, 145. 2 Ibid. 3 See W. Ewald, Unger's Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study, 97 Yale Law Journal (1988), 655; cf. C. West, CLS and a Liberal Critical, 97 Yale Law Journal (1988), 757 (A reply to Ewald's scathing criticism of Unger). See also Ewald's rejoinder: Reply, 97 Yale Law Journal (1988), 773-75. 4 R.M. Unger, The Critical Legal Studies Movement, 96 Harvard Law Review (1983), 563-675 (referred to hereafter as 'CLSM'). 5 West, supra n.3 at 757-3.