Legal realism at Yale, 1927-1960 / Laura Kalman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalman, Laura, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yale Law School--History.

Yale Law School.

Harvard Law School--History.

Harvard Law School.

Law--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Law.

Jurisprudence--United States--History.

Jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1986]

Summary:

For more than one hundred years, Harvard's use of the case method of appellate opinions dominated legal education. Deploring the attempt to reduce law to an autonomous system of rules and principles, the realists at Yale developed a functional approach to the discipline--one that stressed the factual context of the case rather than the legal principles it raised, one that attempted to address issues of social policy by integrating law with the social sciences. Originally published 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 The Context and Characteristics of Legal Realism

2 Realism Rejected: The Case of Harvard

3 Two Realistic Law Schools? Columbia and Yale

4 Pictures from an Institution: The First Yale Realists

5 Postwar Realism

6 Convergence

Epilogue

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890874719

9781469620756

1469620758

OCLC:

1065389430