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American Legal Realism

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ISBN-10: 0195071239

ISBN-13: 9780195071238

Edition: 1993

Authors: William W. Fisher, Morton J. Horwitz, Thomas A. Reed, William W. Fisher

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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…    
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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.14" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Morton J. Horwitz is a graduate of City College of New York and received a doctorate in Government and a law degree from Harvard University. Author of numerous articles in law and history, Mr. Horwitz is Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, where he teaches legal history.

Antecedents
The Common Law (1881)
""The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law"" (1893)
The Path of the Law (1897)
Lochner v. New York (1905) (Holmes, J., dissenting)
""Liberty of Contract"" (1909)
The Nature and Sources of the Law (1909)
""Law in Books and Law in Action"" (1910)
""Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning"" (1913)
The Struggle over the Meaning of ""Realism""
""A Realistic Jurisprudence--The Next Step"" (1930)
""The Call for Realist Jurisprudence"" (1931)
""Some Realism About Realism--Responding to Dean Pound"" (1931)
Law and the Market
""Offer and Acceptance, and Some of the Resulting Legal Relations"" (1917)
""The Standardizing of Contracts"" (1917)
""What Price Contract?--An Essay in Perspective"" (1931)
""The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages"" (1936-1937)
The Critique of the Public/Private Distinction
""Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State"" (1923)
""Property and Sovereignty"" (1927)
""Law Making by Private Groups"" (1937)
M Witmark & Sons v. Fred Fisher Music Co. (1942) (Frank, J., dissenting)
Law and Organizational Society Vegelahn V. Guntner (1896)
""The Basis of Vicarious Liability"" (1917)
International News Service v. Associated Press (1918)
""The Historic Background of Corporate Legal Personality"" (1926)
The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)
The Administrative Process (1938)
Legal Reasoning
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon (1922)
""Logical Method and Law"" (1924)
The Theory of Judicial Decision: Or How Judges Think"" (1925)
""A Return to Stare Decisis"" (1928)
""The Judgement Intuitive: The Function of the 'Hunch' in Judicial Decision"" (1929)
Law and the Modern Mind (1930)
""Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach"" (1935)
""Remarks on the Theory of Apellate Decision and the Rules or Canons About How Statutes Are to Be Construed"" (1950)
Law as Social Science
Brief Defendant in Error, Muller v. Oregon (1908)
""Scientific Method and the Law"" (1927)
The Cheyenne Way (1941)
""Law and Learning Theory: A Study in Legal Control"" (1943)
Legal Education and Legal Scholarship
Summary of Studies in Legal Education (1929)
""Institute Priests and Yale Observers--A Reply to Dean Goodrich"" (1936)
""Goodbye to Law Reviews"" (1936)
Notes
Bibliography