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Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 Hardcover - 2010

by Laura Kalman


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Important Study of the Legal Realism Movement The history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists' attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, and the judiciary in a societal context represented a departure from the scientific casebook method espoused by C.C. Langdell at Harvard University Law School in the 1870s, and later supported by Roscoe Pound. Laura Kalman is a Professor of History at University of California Santa Barbara. Laura Kalman argues that factors such as budgetary constraints, university politics, personal feuds, and broader social trends may have been as important as legal theory in shaping the contours and determining the fate of legal realism at Yale. She calls her book 'a case study of the interrelationship between intellectual theory and institutional factors within the specific context of legal education.' Using legal education at Harvard as a reference point, especially Langdellian conceptualism, she sees realism as a variety of functionalism, reflecting a belief that law should be organized with reference to facts and social purposes rather than abstract legal concepts. Thus, the emergence of legal realism at Yale was, among other things, an attempt by the Yale Law School to differentiate itself from the Harvard Law School and thereby to enhance its own stature. --Paul L. Murphy, The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct. 1989) Laura Kalman's monograph, originally a dissertation, is nevertheless a fresh and rather engaging study of a finished chapter in intellectual history-the legal realist movement. It flourished in the 1930s, revived in another form after World War II, and then faded away around 1960, when Kalman ends her work. --Ralph S. Brown, Law and History Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1988) CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prologue 1 The Context and Characteristics of Legal Realism 2 Realism Rejected: The Case of Harvard 3 Two Realistic Law Schools? Columbia and Yale 4 Pictures from an Institution: The First Yale Realists 5 Postwar Realism 6 Convergence Epilogue Notes Index

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  • Title Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960
  • Author Laura Kalman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • Date 2010-04-20
  • ISBN 9781584772033 / 1584772034
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.88 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001041306
  • Dewey Decimal Code 340.071
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2010. ISBN-13: 9781584772033; ISBN-10: 1584772034. Legal Realism and Legal Education Kalman, Laura. Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. Originally published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii, 314 pp. Reprinted 2002, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772033; ISBN-10: 1584772034. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * As Kalman shows in this important study, the history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960. The Realists' attention to the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, and the judiciary's societal context represented a departure from the scientific casebook method introduced by C.C. Langdell at Harvard University Law School in the 1870s and institutionalized nationally over the following decades.
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