LSAT 21 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q13

RC Question 13 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Paragraph one describes legal theory before the 1970s. Scholars debated what the law was, and natural law and legal positivism were the two major schools of thought.

Lines 14-17 tell us that the interdisciplinary nature of legal study was new in the 1970s. So before then, legal studies were not very interdisciplinary.

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1. This is something CLS scholars would have said, in the 1970s.
2. Actually, legal positivists thought that law was a tool of government power (lines 9-11).
3. Natural law was concerned with the moral authority of law (lines 7-9), and positivism was concerned with whether the law reflected the authority of the governing class (Lines 9-11).
4. This is a nonsense answer that strings together terms from two unrelated sections of the passage. “Economic” has to do with Law and Economics, and “moral” has to do with natural law.
5. CORRECT. This must be true. Law only became interdisciplinary in the 1970s.