As an intellectual movement, CLS represents a rich, albeit diverse, set of views and theoretical approaches for understanding the nature of law and adjudication in the modern era. Critical legal studies offers a distinctive and progressive form of jurisprudence developed from eclectic intellectual sources. The writing of this movement is critical because it is consciously associated with the counterculture and the new-left politics of the 1960s. The critical legal studies movement has advanced its intellectual projects by rediscovering the political potential of a political critique of law presented by the radical strand of legal realism, which remained dormant after the 1930s. MINDA, Gary. Postmodern legal movements: law and jurisprudence at centurys end. New York: New York University Press, 1995, p. 110. [2] Ibidem, p. 111. [3] The major theme in CLS analysis of law and economics, which is closely parallel to the major theme in CLS analysis of law more generally, can be readily summarized: law and economics, though typically couched as an apolitical, technical exercise, is in fact an intensely political project. Arguments in law and economics both rely upon and themselves embody controversial political judgements. Law and economics argument, like legal argument, is ideological; both genres are structured by intractable though not immutable political contradictions. The dream of a meaningful technical efficiency discourse purged of political contradiction is a chimerical nightmare, both because it is false and because adherence to it tends to move political argument rightward to a band between pragmatic, technocratic centrism and free-market libertarianism. WAYNE, Eastman. Critical Legal Studies. In: BOUCKAERT, Boudewijn; DE GEEST, Gerrit. op. cit., p. 756. [4] The critical legal studies movement has undermined the central ideas of modern legal thought and put another conception of law in their place. This conception implies a view of society and informs a practice of politics. UNGER, Roberto M. The Critical Legal Studies movement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 1. [5] The law and economics school has invoked practical requirements (with normative implications) that supposedly underlie the legal system and its history; the rights and principles school, moral imperatives allegedly located within the legal order itself. The law and economics school has chiefly served the political right; the rights and principles school, the liberal center. But both theoretical tendencies can best be understood as efforts to recover the objectivist and formalist position. It is as restatements of objectivism and formalism that we have rejected them. Ibidem, p. 12. [6] GODOY, Arnaldo S. M. Direito & Utopia em Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Sao Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2010, p. 207. [7] KELMAN, Mark. A guide to Critical Legal Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 141-142. [8] KENNEDY, Duncan. Law and Economics from the perspective of Critical Legal Studies. In: NEWMAN, Peter. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998, p. 465-466. [9] ALVAREZ, Alejandro. Analise economica do direito: contribuicoes e desmistificacoes. Direito, Estado e Sociedade, v. 9, n. 29, jul/dez. 2006, p. 50-51. [10] Para uma analise geral do movimento e sobre a obra de Roberto Unger, Cf.: GODOY, Arnaldo. O critical