Jurisprudence ; Realism in Theory and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jurisprudence ; Realism in Theory and Practice write by Karl Nickerson Llewellyn. This book was released on 1971. Jurisprudence ; Realism in Theory and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory
Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory write by Hanoch Dagan. This book was released on 2013-09. Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates how legal realism offers important and unique jurisprudential insights that are not just a part of legal history, but are also relevant and useful for a contemporary understanding of legal theory.
The Judicial Process
The Judicial Process - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Judicial Process write by E. W. Thomas. This book was released on 2005-09-15. The Judicial Process available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the absence of a sound conception of the judicial role, judges at present can be said to be 'muddling along'. They disown the declaratory theory of law but continue to behave and think as if it had not been discredited. Much judicial reasoning still exhibits an unquestioning acceptance of positivism and a 'rulish' predisposition. Formalistic thinking continues to exert a perverse influence on the legal process. This 2005 book dismantles these outdated theories and seeks to bridge the gap between legal theory and judicial practice. The author propounds a coherent and comprehensive judicial methodology for modern times. Founded on the truism that the law exists to serve society, and adopting the twin criteria of justice and contemporaneity with the times, a judicial methodology is developed which is realistic and pragmatic and which embraces a revised conception of practical reasoning, including in that conception a critical role for legal principles.
Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement
Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement write by William Twining. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1973, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement is a classic account of American Legal Realism and its leading figure. Karl Llewellyn is the best known and most substantial jurist of the group of lawyers known as the American Realists. He made important contributions to legal theory, legal sociology, commercial law, contract law, civil liberties and legal education. This intellectual biography sets Llewellyn in the broad context of the rise of the American Realist Movement and contains an overview of his life before focusing on his most important works, including The Cheyenne Way, The Bramble Bush, The Common Law Tradition and the Uniform Commercial Code. In this second edition the original text is supplemented with a preface by Frederick Schauer and an afterword in which William Twining gives a fascinating account of the making of the book and comments on developments in relevant legal scholarship over the past forty years.
Classic Writings in Law and Society
Classic Writings in Law and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classic Writings in Law and Society write by A. Javier Trevino. This book was released on 2011-12-31. Classic Writings in Law and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume consists of outstanding essays by contemporary scholars and specialists on classic writings in law and society. This second edition expands the previous volume by adding additional statements. Included are commentaries on Edward A. Ross’s Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, Karl N. Llewellyn’s Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice, Jerome Frank’s Law and the Modern Mind, Leon Petrazycki’s Law and Morality, and Karl Renner’s The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions. The goal of Classic Writings in Law and Society is to acquaint a new generation of students with classic writings by diverse social and legal scholars—ranging from Henry Sumner Maine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Hans Kelsen to Eugen Ehrlich, Nicholas S. Timasheff, and Richard Quinney. This work continues to demonstrate their contemporary theoretical relevance. Accordingly, each chapter speaks of the scholars’ work in general, how the particular book under consideration fits into that corpus, and how the book is assessed in a present day context. These essays have a clear relation to the "classic" tradition in sociolegal thought. Reading the classics is useful in gaining a better understanding and appreciation of the essential foundation for a post-classic approach in law and social inquiry—an approach that can be found in such orientations as critical legal studies, chaos theory in law, and legal semiotics. Classic Writings in Law and Society includes commentaries that consider early writings that set the standard for the social scientific approach in examining issues of law and punishment, social control, joint stock companies, business firms and nation-states in the study of law and society.
