American legal realism and empirical social science:

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920's and 1930's that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars'...

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Main Author: Schlegel, John Henry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [u.a.] Univ. of North Carolina Press [ca 2010]
Series:Studies in legal history
UNC Press enduring editions
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Summary:John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920's and 1930's that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge the received notion that the study of law was primarily a matter of learning rules and how to manipulate them. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula.
Physical Description:XII, 418 S.
ISBN:9780807857533
080785753X

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