Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870-1970

by Herbert Hovenkamp

Two Victorian Era intellectual movements changed the course of American legal thought: Darwinian natural selection and marginalist economics. The two movements rested on fundamentally inconsistent premises. Darwinism emphasized instinct, random selection, and determinism; marginalism emphasized rational choice. American legal theory managed to accommodate both, although to different degrees in different disciplines. The two movements also developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199331308
• ISBN13: 9780199331307
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"