American Legal Realism

Abstract

Introduction: Realisms This entry offers an overview and analysis of American Legal Realism, the school of thought associated with a group of theorists, primarily American, whose most important contributions came in the 1930s. Jerome Frank (1930) and Karl Llewellyn (2011; Twining 2014) are probably the most well-known of the Realists, but the ranks of Realism also include