American Legal Realism and Anthropology

Legal Realism for Economists

M ost economic theory presumes—often implicitly—a system of law and adjudication. After all, institutions like property, contract, and government regulation typically entail mechanisms for law-creation and lawapplication, which usually (though perhaps not inevitably) imply some kind of judicial system (Posner, 2008, pp. 5–6). Because judges are often responsible for interpreting and enforcing t...

The Limits of Legal Realism,

Holmes launched the highly successful American school of legal realism with his remark that "law" consists of "prophecies of what the courts will do in fact." [FN1] Later writers amended this proposition to include all officials, since decisions by judges constitute only a fraction of authoritative decisionmaking. [FN2] In its heyday, realism stimulated many proposals for legal reform and socia...

American Contributions to Anthropology.

Special Articles: Chemical Basis of Fever: DR. VALY MENKIN. Teland Liver and Vitamin A Toxicity: EDWARD J. HERBST, PAUL L. PAVOEK and DR. C. A. ELVEJHEM. Exchange Reactions of Diiodotyrosine: DR. WILBUR H. MILLER, DR. GEORGE W. ANDERSON, R. K. MADISON and DR. D. J. SALLEY. Effect of Hexyl Resyrcinol on Diffusion of Chloride and Sulfate through Sintered Glass and Other Membranes: DR. ROBERT L. D...

Legal Realism as Theory of Law

Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropologists.

The American Association for the Advancement of HinAow. Structural Geology: PROFEsSOR BAILEY Science: WILLIS .... 236 Applied Anthropology and the American AnthroSpecial Articles: pologists: DR. MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS ........................... 215 Brain Potentials during Hypnosis: DR. ALFRED L. Obituary: LOOmIS, PROFESSOR E. NEWTON HARVEY and GABAlbert Spear Hitchcock: AGNES CHASE. Recent RT ...