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...legal circles, Unger is best known for his integral role in the development of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), an influential and very controversial movement in legal theory that argues that existing legal frameworks are grounded in socioeconomic inequity rather than neutral principles...
Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who is also regarded as a leading figure in the CLS movement, said in an interview that Unger was a “central” figure in developing the movement’s theory, and that “very early on he...described a number of important aspects of Critical Legal Studies and captured in very important ways what the enterprise was about...
Over the past few years, Unger has attacked Lula’s government for its recurring corruption scandals. He has gone so far as to describe the administration as “the most corrupt in Brazilian history,” calling for the president’s impeachment in a 2005 editorial in Folha de S. Paulo, a Portuguese-language daily often regarded as Brazil’s newspaper-of-record...
After taking the position with Lula’s government, Unger retracted these criticisms, writing again in Folha de S. Paulo, “I was wrong. The facts demonstrated that the president had no direct or indirect involvement in those episodes...
...Unger also removed the first editorial from his Harvard Web site, another Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de S. Paulo, recently reported...