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8 ALSA F. 167 (1984)
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Law

handle is hein.journals/lstf8 and id is 175 raw text is: ARTICLES ORWELL'S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR AND LAW by Rans ford C. Pyle l),'partment of Pulic Serrice Affairt. U niterotr of Central Forida papers, popular presentations and a variety of general responses. Certainly legal scholarship should not be left off the bandwagon. Nevertheless, 1984 may be viewed at first blush to have a lot to do with politics, almost nothing to do with law. The book's protagonist, Winston Smith, probably Orwell's oracular alter ego, declares that his society has no laws, and American practitioners are no doubt inclined to agree. To a lawyer, the most notable feature of the regime of Oceania (1984's huge nation headquartered in London) is its absence of lawyers and courts - there is no legal profession as we think of one. I would like to focus in part on that apparent gap in what otherwise would appear to be a slightly grotesque forecast of selected features of socialist society and politics. I say slightly because the frighteningly grotesque vision it presented a third of a centurv ago is mitigated by a partial fulfillment of the prophetic message. A LSA Forum

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