Critical Legal Studies scholars like Duncan Kennedy demonstrated that legal doctrine contains contradictions between individualism and altruism that no unified purpose can resolve.

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Critical Legal Studies(as the academic movement being discussed): A school of thought that examines how law isn't neutral or objective, but rather reflects power struggles and hidden assumptions in society.
Duncan Kennedy(as the scholar cited for this argument): An American legal scholar who argued that the way lawyers think about law contains built-in conflicts that can't be perfectly resolved.
Individualism(Epistemology of testimony; contrasted with externalist or social accounts of justification): The view that the cognitive processes relevant to the acquisition of testimonial justification are solely those internal to the believing subject
Legal doctrine(as the subject containing contradictions): The established principles, rules, and interpretations that form the foundation of how the law works and is understood by lawyers and judges.

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