William Twining

Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

An intellectual biography of Karl Llewellyn, originally published in 1973. Includes a preface by Frederick Schauer and an afterword by William Twining.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023383
• ISBN-10: 1107023386
• Artikelnr.: 36686059

Autorenporträt

William Twining is the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at University College London and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He was a pupil of Karl Llewellyn in 1957¿8 and put Llewellyn's very extensive papers in order after his death in 1962. Twining's recent writings include Rethinking Evidence, 2nd edition (2006), General Jurisprudence (2009) and How to Do Things with Rules, 5th edition (with David Miers, 2010), all published by Cambridge University Press and recognizable as part of the realist tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Rise of the Realist Movement, 1870
1931: Introduction: 1. Langdell's Harvard; 2. Corbin's Yale, 1897
1918; 3. Columbia in the 1920s; 4. The aftermath of the split; 5. The realist controversy, 1930
1; Part II. The Life and Work of Karl Llewellyn: A Case Study: 6. The man; 7. Two early works; 8. The Cheyenne Way; 9. Law in our society; 10. The Common Law Tradition; 11. The genesis of the uniform commercial code; 12. The jurisprudence of the uniform commercial code; 13. Miscellaneous writings; 14. The significance of Llewellyn: an assessment; Part III. Conclusion: 15. The significance of realism.