Karl Llewellyn

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Karl Llewellyn

American legal scholar

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Karl Llewellyn
The founding figure of American legal realism is often said to be the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935). His 1897 lecture “The Path of the Law” (published in the Harvard Law Review) sounded many of the major themes of realism: the difference…
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The founding figure of American legal realism is often said to be the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935). His 1897 lecture “The Path of the Law” (published in the Harvard Law Review) sounded many of the major themes of realism: the difference…
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