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Reconstructing American legal realism & rethinking private law theory

The author revives the legal realists' rich account of law as a growing institution accommodating three sets of constitutive tensions-power and reason, science and craft, and tradition and progress, and demonstrates how the major claims attributed to legal realism fit into this conception of la...

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Main Author: Dagan, òHanokh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
Subjects:
Law / Philosophy
Realism
Law / United States / Philosophy
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The author revives the legal realists' rich account of law as a growing institution accommodating three sets of constitutive tensions-power and reason, science and craft, and tradition and progress, and demonstrates how the major claims attributed to legal realism fit into this conception of law. The book seeks to rein in realist descendants who have become fixated on one aspect of the big picture, and to dispel the misconceptions that those gone astray represent the tradition accurately or that realism is now merely a historical signpost
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780199367689

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