Legal Realism Regained: Saving Realism from Critical Acclaim

by Wouter de Been

Legal Realism Regained presents a comparison between the legal realists, a group of pragmatic legal theorists from the 1920s and 1930s, and critical legal studies, a movement of postmodern legal theory during the end of the twentieth century. The book argues for a return to legal realism and the classical pragmatism of John Dewey and William James and for a rejection of the postmodern critique of critical legal studies. It discusses the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804756597
• ISBN13: 9780804756594
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"