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Formalism and Pragmatism in American Law

by Thomas C. Grey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004272880
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 262
  • Original Price: GBP 146.4
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 599 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In Formalism and Pragmatism in American Law Thomas Grey gives a full account of each of these modes of legal thought, with particular attention to the versions of them promulgated by their influential exponents Christopher Columbus Langdell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Grey argues that legal pragmatism as understood by Holmes is the best jurisprudential framework for a modern legal system. He enriches his theoretical account with treatments of central issues in three important areas of law in the United States: constitutional interpretation, property, and torts.

Thomas C. Grey, Ll.B. (1968) Yale Law School, is Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford Law School. He is a leading legal theorist and historian of the development of modern American legal thought. He has written extensively on the development of such strains of legal thought as pragmatism, formalism, and realism with particular attention to the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Earlier in his career, he wrote significant articles on constitutional law, history, and theory, with special emphasis on the "unwritten constitution" of unenumerated constitutional rights. He also taught torts to first-year students for more than 30 years before his retirement in 2007.

Professor Grey is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of an honorary law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1971, he served as a clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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