Brooks, Thom (2015) 'David Ingersoll, behavioralism and the modern revival of legal realism.', Beijing law review., 6 (3). pp. 190-192.
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (594Kb) |
Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (185Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/blr.2015.63018 |
Publisher statement: | Copyright © 2015 by author and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Date accepted: | 24 June 2015 |
Date deposited: | 20 June 2016 |
Date of first online publication: | 12 August 2015 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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