 The skepticism of American Legal Realism has had two intellectual descendants in legal theory. One of these consists of the self-styled “critical” theorists—the Critical Legal Studies movement (or “Crits”) whose heyday was in the 1970s and 1980s in America. Much of this movement’s skepticism is simply warmed-over postmodernism, itself a passing fashion in many disciplines besides law (Moore 1989). More interesting intellectually were criticisms that were not based on postmodernist platitudes but were specific to causation.