American Legal Realism (Paperback, New)

A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the subject of lively debate, this collection of readings, written largely between 1900 and 1940, includes works from prominent writers on the subject that have never before been generally available. Introduced and edited by noted scholars in the field, the anthology includes such contributors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Thayer, Roscoe Pound, John Chipman Gray, Wesley Hohfeld, Karl Llewellyn, Arthur Corbin, Nathan Issacs, Robert Hale, Harold Laski, Max Radin, and others. With concise biographical notes as well as introductions to provide historical context, each selection addresses a different debate involving Legal Realism. Included is a selective bibliography, making the text valuable to a broad range of scholars.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	October 1993
Editors:	William W. Fisher (Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History) • Morton J. Horwitz (Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law) • Thomas A. Reed (Assistant District Attorney)
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-507123-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-19-507123-9
Barcode:	9780195071238

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