ABSTRACT
Summary
Emmanuel Lévy is almost entirely unknown in the Anglophone world, yet his originality deserves international recognition. His work can be compared with radical legal theory in other societies but is more subtle than that of some better known jurists. His ideas about the political practice of law and about the social significance of legal thought predated, by many decades, similar views of the American critical legal studies movement. His understanding of law as grounded in potentially unstable beliefs resonates with themes of postmodernist legal studies. Where Lévy is ambiguous or unclear, the cause often lies in the profoundly contradictory influences that shaped his thought.
