Politics December 22, 2000 Return of Legal Realism Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.

With the end of Roe v. Wade, "legal realism" looks more plausible — that is, judges deciding based on personal biases instead of the law or precedent.

I explained that the Constitution’s provisions for the judiciary were drafted with the traditional views in mind—but once “legal realism” began to dominate legal thinking, the judicial system no ...

Legal Realism and the Race Question: Some Realism about Realism on Race Relations, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 7 (May, 1995), pp. 1607-1624 ...

Legal realism, in contrast, suggests that judges should tailor decisions with any eye to how they will affect society.

To understand Legal Realism, one must know something of the system of rules and ideas it was designed to discredit and displace. Various labels, most of them censorious, have been used to describe ...

Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 975-995 (21 pages) The new legal realism builds on the strengths of the legal realism of the early twentieth century, viewing law as a set of ...

In the canon of Legal Realism, there are two classic treatments of the subject of intellectual property. The first is Felix Cohen's brief but fierce attack, in the midst of his most famous article, on ...

The Fourth Annual Scandinavian Legal Realism Seminar 3 May 2017 Time: 4:00 - 6:30pm Venue: Room 313, Law Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS The Centre for Law and ...