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David Ingersoll, Behavioralism and the Modern Revival of Legal Realism

Brooks, Thom

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David Ingersoll’s essay “Karl Llewellyn, American Legal Realism and Contemporary Legal Behavioralism” is a significant, but neglected contribution to our understanding of legal realism in the United States. This article argues that it first anticipates the shape of legal realism’s revival today and shows that Ingersoll was ahead of his time. The once dominant school of legal realism had become a much maligned theory of law when this essay was first published. Ingersoll identifies two varieties of legal realism and most critics focus on only one of them. He argues that legal realism should be revived if it develops its second variety often overlooked which accepts rule skepticism and recognizes the importance of social psychology to predicting legal outcomes more reliably.

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Brooks, T. (2015). David Ingersoll, Behavioralism and the Modern Revival of Legal Realism. Beijing Law Review, 6(3), 190-192. https://doi.org/10.4236/blr.2015.63018

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 24, 2015
Online Publication Date Aug 12, 2015
Publication Date Aug 12, 2015
Deposit Date Jun 25, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Beijing Law Review
Print ISSN 2159-4627
Electronic ISSN 2159-4635
Publisher Scientific Research Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 6
Issue 3
Pages 190-192
DOI https://doi.org/10.4236/blr.2015.63018

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