Critical legal studies

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Critical legal studies

Quality:

Critical legal studies - movement in legal thought committed to shaping society based on a vision of human personality devoid of hidden interests and class domination. Article “Critical legal studies” in English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.94 points.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Critical legal studies” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Critical legal studies”, its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 302 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 253 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3472 in August 2003
  • Global: #9125 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #55864 in June 2021
  • Global: #105263 in June 2021

There are 20 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Portuguese (pt)
Estudo crítico do direito
50.1186
2English (en)
Critical legal studies
44.4807
3Finnish (fi)
Critical legal studies
33.497
4Esperanto (eo)
Kritikaj juraj studoj
28.9827
5French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
26.6459
6Indonesian (id)
Studi hukum kritis
20.4139
7Ukrainian (uk)
Критичні правові дослідження
19.5076
8Japanese (ja)
批判法学
19.2425
9Estonian (et)
Kriitiline õigusteadus
16.4054
10Italian (it)
Studi critici del diritto
11.7344
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Critical legal studies" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Critical legal studies
976 013
2Portuguese (pt)
Estudo crítico do direito
36 732
3German (de)
Critical legal studies
33 652
4Hebrew (he)
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
23 221
5Chinese (zh)
批判法律研究
16 870
6Turkish (tr)
Eleştirel hukuk çalışmaları
11 769
7Japanese (ja)
批判法学
8 766
8French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
6 305
9Bulgarian (bg)
Критически правни изследвания
6 279
10Estonian (et)
Kriitiline õigusteadus
6 256
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Critical legal studies" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Critical legal studies
2 917
2German (de)
Critical legal studies
175
3French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
99
4Portuguese (pt)
Estudo crítico do direito
96
5Chinese (zh)
批判法律研究
89
6Japanese (ja)
批判法学
82
7Hebrew (he)
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
81
8Italian (it)
Studi critici del diritto
40
9Turkish (tr)
Eleştirel hukuk çalışmaları
38
10Indonesian (id)
Studi hukum kritis
34
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Critical legal studies" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Critical legal studies
139
2German (de)
Critical legal studies
36
3Hebrew (he)
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
22
4Portuguese (pt)
Estudo crítico do direito
16
5Ukrainian (uk)
Критичні правові дослідження
11
6French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
10
7Persian (fa)
مطالعات انتقادی حقوق
9
8Bulgarian (bg)
Критически правни изследвания
7
9Italian (it)
Studi critici del diritto
7
10Lithuanian (lt)
Kritinės teisės studijos
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Critical legal studies" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Critical legal studies
4
2Hebrew (he)
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
1
3Bulgarian (bg)
Критически правни изследвания
0
4German (de)
Critical legal studies
0
5Esperanto (eo)
Kritikaj juraj studoj
0
6Estonian (et)
Kriitiline õigusteadus
0
7Persian (fa)
مطالعات انتقادی حقوق
0
8Finnish (fi)
Critical legal studies
0
9French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
0
10Hindi (hi)
समीक्षात्मक विधि अध्ययन
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Critical legal studies" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Critical legal studies
253
2Persian (fa)
مطالعات انتقادی حقوق
227
3Turkish (tr)
Eleştirel hukuk çalışmaları
143
4Portuguese (pt)
Estudo crítico do direito
136
5Bulgarian (bg)
Критически правни изследвания
133
6Chinese (zh)
批判法律研究
128
7Hebrew (he)
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
80
8French (fr)
Études juridiques critiques
39
9Japanese (ja)
批判法学
17
10German (de)
Critical legal studies
13
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
bgBulgarian
Критически правни изследвания
deGerman
Critical legal studies
enEnglish
Critical legal studies
eoEsperanto
Kritikaj juraj studoj
etEstonian
Kriitiline õigusteadus
faPersian
مطالعات انتقادی حقوق
fiFinnish
Critical legal studies
frFrench
Études juridiques critiques
heHebrew
הגישה הביקורתית למשפט
hiHindi
समीक्षात्मक विधि अध्ययन
idIndonesian
Studi hukum kritis
itItalian
Studi critici del diritto
jaJapanese
批判法学
koKorean
비판법학
ltLithuanian
Kritinės teisės studijos
noNorwegian
Kritisk rettsvitenskap
ptPortuguese
Estudo crítico do direito
trTurkish
Eleştirel hukuk çalışmaları
ukUkrainian
Критичні правові дослідження
zhChinese
批判法律研究

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#55864
06.2021
Global:
#105263
06.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3472
08.2003
Global:
#9125
08.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Critical legal studies from Wikipedia articles about Critical race theory, Duncan Kennedy, Critical sociology, Research and Mark Tushnet. Whereas reading the article about Critical legal studies people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Critical sociology, Indeterminacy debate in legal theory and Legal realism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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