Introduction
The early 1980s— when “politics and ideology . . . turned arse-over-tit,”
as E.P. Thompson once described it— was, in the less colorful language of
David Harvey, a “revolutionary turning point in the world’s social and economic
history.”1 Law was not immune to the sweeping changes taking
place.2 Until the 1980s, and over the previous half century, law had served
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