Legal Realism Regained: Saving Realism from Critical Acclaim

This Title 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 20th Century. It 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. A Tale Of Two Movements -- The Seeds Of Time : Legal Realism And Legal History -- The Wealth Of Historicism : Legal History In The Critical Mold -- Everything Flows And Nothing Abides : The Realist Turn To Social Science -- Oh, The Tangled Webs We Weave : The Cls Critique Of Social Science -- Night Of The Living Dead : Legal Realist Anticonceptualism -- The World Well Lost : Variations On The Linguistic Theme -- Realizing Realism : Reconstruction In Legal Theory. Wouter De Been. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References (p. [231]-244) And Index. English