Beyond the formalist-realist divide : the role of politics in judging /

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases. In the 1920s and 1930s, the story continues, the legal rea...

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Main Author: Tamanaha, Brian Z.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010
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