Q13

[jwms]

I easily knocked off answer choices A, B and C, but was left with D and E.

I don't see any inference to natural/positive law being concerned with the study of law being an 'economic' agent. So this is the trouble I have with (D) as the correct answer.

Further, CLS and Law & Lit emphasise the interdisciplinary approach -- employing disciplines such as anthropology and sociology. Given that these are new movements, and that they draw on interdisciplinary approaches, it seemed to differentiate these movements on that basis to some extent from the pre-70s approaches to the study of law.

Any help here would be appreciated!

[ohthatpatrick]

The correct answer is (E). I'm not sure if your answer choice is off or if you just mis-read something, but you were correct about your thinking.

I would start by finding the keywords "before the 1970s" in the passage.

Line 12 says "since the early 1970s", and the 2nd paragraph introduces the "new and surprising answers" to the question of "what is law?"

So I would anticipate that the answer to what was going on BEFORE the 1970s would have to be some form of "NOT the new and surprising answers".

And, of course, since this is an Inference question, I'll be particularly skeptical of answers containing anything
- extreme
- comparative
- out of scope

(A) "primarily" is extreme.
(B) this goes against line 10
(C) No, they were still very concerned with this question; they just didn't have the "new and surprising answers" to it.
(D) "primarily" is extreme (and economic is one of the NEW ideas)
(E) Yup, this is just saying "before the 1970s" they were "NOT doing something we were told about originating in the early 1970s".

Hope this helps.