• Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law; it is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, that is, it should rely...
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  • Dialectical realism (Hacking) Direct realism Empirical realism Entity realism Epistemic structural realism Epistemological realism Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)...
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  • New legal realism (NLR) is an emerging school of thought in American legal philosophy. Although it draws on the older legal realism from the first half...
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  • of formalism is legal realism, which has been said to be "[p]erhaps the most pervasive and accepted theory of how judges arrive at legal decisions." This...
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    besides legal rules that led to a legal decision. There are two separate schools of legal realism: American legal realism and Scandinavian legal realism. American...
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  • The influence of legal realism unsettled American jurisprudence for decades. Alan Hunt writes that the period "between the realism of the 1930s and the...
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    or arbitrary grounds. According to legal realism, law is not a rational system of rules and norms. Legal realism is critical of the idea that law has...
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    Karl Llewellyn (category American legal scholars)
    with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th...
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  • Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of...
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    Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among...
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  • procedure, while also publishing articles as a member of the influential legal realism school of thought. He worked with future Supreme Court Justice William...
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  • a third way between legal formalism and legal realism. Drawing its name from Hart & Sacks' textbook The Legal Process (along with Hart & Wechsler's textbook...
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  • Prentice-Hall. Llewellyn, Karl N. (1986). Karl N. Llewellyn on Legal Realism. Birmingham, AL: Legal Classics Library. (Contains penetrating classic "The Bramble...
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  • of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism. His debate in 1959 with the prominent British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart – which began in the...
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    and a response to the 'formalism' of legal positivists. Legal skepticism is sometimes known as legal realism. According to Richard Posner, "The skeptical...
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    – January 13, 1957) was an American legal philosopher and author who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. He was chairman of the U.S...
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  • law, not make it." To formalism's rival, legal realism, this criticism is incoherent, because legal realism assumes that, at least in difficult cases...
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  • "right answer" thesis. In its strongest form it is an extreme version of legal realism. It argues that nothing is law until it has been promulgated by an official...
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    camp of legal realism, broadly speaking, consists of those scholars who strictly reject the concept of natural law and who believe that legal concepts...
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    Yang. While the term Legalism has still seen some conventional usage in recent years, such as in Adventures in Chinese Realism, academia has otherwise...
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    dean, he gained notice for Yale's development of the philosophy of legal realism. Hutchins was thirty years old when he became Chicago's president in...
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  • the history of European law" (PDF). Europe. The New Legal Realism. Europe. The New Legal Realism, DJØF Publishing: Århus, 2010. Archived from the original...
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    legal philosopher. He studied law at Uppsala from 1915 to 1920 and was a pupil of Axel Hägerström, the spiritual father of Scandinavian legal realism...
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  • Law in action is a legal theory, associated with legal realism, that examines the role of law, not just as it exists in the statutes and cases, but as...
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  • court held that the word "marry" could not in that context mean "become legally married" since that could never apply to someone who is already married...
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  • interpretation of the law is based exclusively on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as intention...
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  • from a court. The theory played a key role in influencing American legal realism. H. L. A. Hart criticized the theories in his The Concept of Law (1961)...
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    looking to the decision of a previous and similar case according to the legal principle of stare decisis, by finding a rule or principle in an earlier...
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