"American Legal Realism" is a must-read for law students and legal scholars. The book provides a collection of readings that were written between 1900 and 1940 by prominent writers on the subject, including Roscoe Pound, Karl Llewellyn, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The authors provide historical context for each selection, making it easy to understand the various debates surrounding Legal Realism. The book’s concise biographical notes and selective bibliography add value and provide a great starting point for those interested in the subject.

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A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the subject of lively debate, this collection of readings, written largely between 1900 and 1940, includes works from prominent writers on the subject that have never before been generally available. Introduced and edited by noted scholars in the field, the anthology includes such contributors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Thayer, Roscoe Pound, John Chipman Gray, Wesley Hohfeld, Karl Llewellyn, Arthur Corbin, Nathan Issacs, Robert Hale, Harold Laski, Max Radin, and others. With concise biographical notes as well as introductions to provide historical context, each selection addresses a different debate involving Legal Realism. Included is a selective bibliography, making the text valuable to a broad range of scholars.

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