American Legal Theory by Arthur L. Goodhart (Editor); Robert Samuel Summers (Editor)ISBN: 9780814779514
Publication Date: 1992-08-01
The essays Professor Summers has brought together in this book consist of various authentic and representative formulations and applications of the dominant general theory of law and its use in the United States during the middle decades of the 20th century. The book includes a number of major contributions that are critical of that theory. The contributors are: The path of the law, Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. Force and coercion; Logical method and law, John Dewey. The need of a sociological jurisprudence; Mechanical jurisprudence; The possibility of a measure of values, Roscoe Pound. What is the law, Joseph W. Binham. A return to stare decisis, Herman Oliphant. A realistic jurisprudence-the next step; The normative, the legal, and the law-jobs: the problem of juristic method, K.N. Lewellyn. The problems of a functional jurisprudence, Felix S. Cohen. The causes of popular dissatisfaction with the administration of justice, Roscoe Pound. The judiciality of minimum-wage legislation, Thomas Red Powell. An institutional approach to the law of commercial banking, Underhill Moore and Theodore S. Hope Jr. Through title to contract and a bit beyond, K.N. Llewellyn. Williston on contracts; The logical and legal bases of the conflict of laws, Walter Wheeler Cook. American legal realism, L.L. Fuller. Legal rules: their function in the process of decision, John Dickenson. Some rationalism about realism, Hermann Kantorwicz. Pragmatic instumentalism in twentieth century American legal thought-a synthesis and critique of our dominant general theory about law and its use.
The Canon of American Legal Thought by Call Number: Harvard Law School Library KF379 .C367x 2006ISBN: 9780691120010Publication Date: 2006This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning
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Legal Intellectuals in Conversation: Reflections on the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory by Call Number: Harvard Law School Library KF380 .H33 2012ISBN: 0814745431Publication Date: 2012In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today.
Legal Pluralism and Development: Scholars and Practitioners in Dialogue by Call Number: Harvard Law School Library K236 .L44 2012ISBN: 9781107019409Publication Date: 2012This book brings together, in a single volume, contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.
