American Legal Realism / Edition 1

American Legal Realism / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0195071239
ISBN-13:
9780195071238
Pub. Date:
10/14/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195071239
ISBN-13:
9780195071238
Pub. Date:
10/14/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
American Legal Realism / Edition 1

American Legal Realism / Edition 1

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Overview

A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the subject of lively debate, this collection of readings, written largely between 1900 and 1940, includes works from prominent writers on the subject that have never before been generally available. Introduced and edited by noted scholars in the field, the anthology includes such contributors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Thayer, Roscoe Pound, John Chipman Gray, Wesley Hohfeld, Karl Llewellyn, Arthur Corbin, Nathan Issacs, Robert Hale, Harold Laski, Max Radin, and others. With concise biographical notes as well as introductions to provide historical context, each selection addresses a different debate involving Legal Realism. Included is a selective bibliography, making the text valuable to a broad range of scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195071238
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/14/1993
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 9.23(w) x 6.17(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Edited by William W. Fisher, III, Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History, Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law, both at Harvard Law School, United States, and Thomas A. Reed, Assistant District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

I. AntecedentsThe Common Law (1881), Oliver Wendell Holmes"The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law" (1893), James B. ThayerThe Path of the Law (1897), Oliver Wendell HolmesLochner v. New York (1905) (Holmes, J., dissenting)"Liberty of Contract" (1909), Roscoe PoundThe Nature and Sources of the Law (1909), John Chipman Gray"Law in Books and Law in Action" (1910), Roscoe Pound"Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning" (1913), Wesley Newcomb HohfeldII. The Struggle over the Meaning of "Realism""A Realistic Jurisprudence—The Next Step" (1930), Karl N. Llewellyn"The Call for Realist Jurisprudence" (1931), Roscoe Pound"Some Realism About Realism—Responding to Dean Pound" (1931), Karl N. LlewellynIII. Law and the Market"Offer and Acceptance, and Some of the Resulting Legal Relations" (1917), Arthur L. Corbin"The Standardizing of Contracts" (1917), Nathan Isaacs"What Price Contract?—An Essay in Perspective" (1931), Karl N. Llewellyn"The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages" (1936-1937), L.L. Fuller and William R. Purdue, Jr.IV. The Critique of the Public/Private Distinction"Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State" (1923), Robert L. Hale"Property and Sovereignty" (1927), Morris R. Cohen"Law Making by Private Groups" (1937), Louis L. JaffeM. Witmark & Sons v. Fred Fisher Music Co. (1942) (Frank, J., dissenting)V. Law and Organizational SocietyVegelahn V. Guntner (1896)" The Basis of Vicarious Liability" (1917), Harold J. LaskiInternational News Service v. Associated Press (1918)"The Historic Background of Corporate Legal Personality" (1926), John DeweyThe Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932), Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. MeansThe Administrative Process (1938), James M. LandisVI. Legal ReasoningThe Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), Benjamin M. CardozoPennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon (1922)"Logical Method and Law" (1924), John DeweyThe Theory of Judicial Decision: Or How Judges Think" (1925), Max Radin"A Return to Stare Decisis" (1928), Herman Oliphant"The Judgement Intuitive: The Function of the 'Hunch' in Judicial Decision" (1929), Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr.Law and the Modern Mind (1930), Jerome Frank"Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach" (1935), Felix S. Cohen"Remarks on the Theory of Apellate Decision and the Rules or Canons About How Statutes Are to Be Construed" (1950), Karl N. LlewellynVII. Law as Social ScienceBrief Defendant in Error, Muller v. Oregon (1908), Louis Brandeis and Josephine Goldmark"Scientific Method and the Law" (1927), Walter W. CookThe Cheyenne Way (1941), Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Anderson Hoebel"Law and Learning Theory: A Study in Legal Control" (1943), Underhill Moore and Charles C. CallahanVIII. Legal Education and Legal ScholarshipSummary of Studies in Legal Education (1929), Herman Oliphant, ed."Institute Priests and Yale Observers—A Reply to Dean Goodrich" (1936), Thurman W. Arnold"Goodbye to Law Reviews" (1936), Fred RodellNotesBibliography
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