American legal realism and empirical social science / John Henry Schlegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlegel, John Henry, author.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jurisprudence.

Law--United States.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s 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. Schlege

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Whys and Wherefores; Prologue: As the Story Is Usually Told; CHAPTER 1 Legal Science, Social Science, and Professional Identity; CHAPTER 2 Empirical Legal Research at Yale: Charles E. Clark and William O. Douglas; CHAPTER 3 Empirical Legal Research at Yale: The Singular Case of Underhill Moore; CHAPTER 4 Empirical Legal Research at Johns Hopkins: Walter Wheeler Cook and His Friends; CHAPTER 5 Empirical Legal Research since World War II: The Reinvention of the Square Wheel; Afterword: On the History of Intellectuals, Including Lawyers

Biographical AppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890866653

9780807864364

0807864366

OCLC:

551728731