Reconstructing American legal realism & rethinking private law theory /
The author revives the legal realists' rich account of law as a growing institution accommodating three sets of constitutive tensions-power and reason, science and craft, and tradition and progress, and demonstrates how the major claims attributed to legal realism fit into this conception of la...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The author revives the legal realists' rich account of law as a growing institution accommodating three sets of constitutive tensions-power and reason, science and craft, and tradition and progress, and demonstrates how the major claims attributed to legal realism fit into this conception of law. The book seeks to rein in realist descendants who have become fixated on one aspect of the big picture, and to dispel the misconceptions that those gone astray represent the tradition accurately or that realism is now merely a historical signpost. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199359219 0199359210 9780199367689 019936768X |