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American Legal Realism
In Dennis Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 249–266 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Jurisprudential Methodology Legal Indeterminacy Descriptive Theory of Adjudication The Attack on Formalism Normative Theory of Adjudication Other Themes from Realism References.Author's Profile
American legal realism, intellectual movement in the United States jurisprudential methodology ‐ realists, a different conception of methodology in jurisprudence modern legal philosophy and method of conceptual analysis realism, construed by critics as conceptual theory ‐ “the predictive theory” “the naturalistic turn” in philosophy ‐ key to realist methodology W.V.O. Quine's contemporary paradigm of philosophical naturalism dominant strand of naturalism in legal realism ‐ type of replacement naturalism legal indeterminacy ‐ influential realist arguments about indeterminacy of law descriptive theory of adjudication attack on formalism ‐ realists in opposition to “formalism” or “mechanical jurisprudence”
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