Furthermore, CLS does not believe in the neutrality of judges' decisions. Judges, as echoed by the school of legal realism, have also not been able to deliver justice because their decisions may not be objective due to being influenced by their life experiences.

CLS also has the characteristic of questioning theories, doctrines, or principles such as legal neutrality, legal autonomy, and the separation of law from politics. For example, CLS criticizes equality before the law (equality before the law).

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This principle is one that contains equality before the law from an idealism of the rule of law. But for CLS, this principle is suspicious because every law-making process is very elitist, so it often only benefits the elite and harms the lower strata. Legal equality will become something utopian.

*This article represents the personal opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the Literasi Hukum Indonesia editorial team.