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American legal realism and empirical social science

Author: John Henry Schlegel
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Series: Studies in legal history.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Henry Schlegel
ISBN: 0807821799 9780807821794 080785753X 9780807857533
OCLC Number: 30399372
Description: xii, 418 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Legal science, social science, and professional identity --
Empirical legal research at Yale: Charles E. Clark and William O. Douglas --
Empirical legal research at Yale: the singular case of Underhill Moore --
Empirical legal research at Johns Hopkins: Walter Wheeler Cook and his friends --
Empirical legal research since World War II: the reinvention of the square wheel --
Afterword: on the history of intellectuals, including lawyers.
Series Title: Studies in legal history.
Other Titles: American legal realism & empirical social science
Responsibility: John Henry Schlegel.

Abstract:

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.

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