Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement

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The work Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement

Statement of responsibility

William Twining, University College London

Title variation

Karl Llewellyn & the Realist Movement

Creator

• Twining, William, 1934-

Author

• Twining, William, 1934-

Subject

• Law -- United States
• Law teachers -- United States -- Biography
• Llewellyn, Karl N., (Karl Nickerson), 1893-1962
• Jurisprudence

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

First published in 1973, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement is a classic account of American Legal Realism and its leading figure. Karl Llewellyn is the best known and most substantial jurist of the group of lawyers known as the American Realists. He made important contributions to legal theory, legal sociology, commercial law, contract law, civil liberties and legal education. This intellectual biography sets Llewellyn in the broad context of the rise of the American Realist Movement and contains an overview of his life before focusing on his most important works, including The Cheyenne Way, The Bramble Bush, The Common Law Tradition and the Uniform Commercial Code. In this second edition the original text is supplemented with a preface by Frederick Schauer and an afterword in which William Twining gives a fascinating account of the making of the book and comments on developments in relevant legal scholarship over the past forty years

Member of

• Law in Context

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

KF373.L54

LC item number

T9 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Law in context