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Foundations of American Legal Realism
1959If we were to study the history of western thought since 1850, perhaps the most important writers of the past century in terms of their impact on modern American jurisprudence would be Marx, Darwin, Comte, Freud, James and Dewey. Economic determinism, evolution and historicism, positivism, pragmatism and instrumentalism, and psychoanalysis have all had
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Frank’s Contributions to the Philosophy of American Legal Realism
1959Justice Holmes’ famous statement that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience” 1 has had a profound effect on contemporary American jurisprudence. Holmes’ monumental influence, together with the impact of positivism, American pragmatism, and more recently, psychoanalysis, have all played important roles in shaping the ...
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The Way The Law Is: On The Coherentist Character of American Legal Realism
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 1995Clifford Geertz claims that in a well-functioning legal system there should be a fit between what Geertz calls the “if, then” structure of legal rules and the “as, therefore” structure of legal decisions. Put simply, for a system of laws to work, the legal rules used to decide cases must make sense given how one understands the cases to which they are ...
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A Fraught Inheritance: Legal Realism, Literary Realism, and the Forging of American Democracy
2017A Fraught Inheritance: Legal Realism, Literary Realism, and the Forging of American Democracy is the first extensive conceptualization of two seminal, contemporaneous movements in American law and letters. The project literarily and legally cross-examines the Reconstruction Amendments, which formally cemented equal citizenship rights in the Civil War’s
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American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science.
The Journal of American History, 1996Edward A. Purcell Jr. +1 more
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American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science
The American Journal of Legal History, 1995James E. Herget, John Henry Schlegel
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Legal Realism: The Law in Action, Not the Law in Books, As the Subject Matter of Legal Analysis
Law and Philosophy Library, 2011Raimo Siltala, Siltala Raimo
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