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Harvard University.
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Gary Peller
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Peller then clerked for the Honorable Morris Lasker. Peller was one of the central figures at the Conference on Critical Legal Studies. With Kimberle Crenshaw, Peller co-authored a widely cited article, The Contradictions of Mainstream Constitutional Theory, published in the University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, and co-edited one of the standard texts in Critical Race Theory.
Peller is among the irrationalist branch of the CLS movement, arguing that there is no neutral or objective rationality but rather what is understood as knowledge is a socially contingent result of prevailing power dynamics.
L. 548 (1993) (co-authored with Kimberle Crenshaw).
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He is also known for his debate with Mark Tushnet where he defended the Critical Race Theorist"s use of personal narrative rather than conventional arguments in their articles
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Peller received an Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in 1977 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School where he served as a member of the Harvard Law Review. He is currently a member of the Maryland state Barometer
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