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Rediscovering Williston, Mark L. Movsesian
Rediscovering Williston, Mark L. Movsesian
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Article is an intellectual history of classical contracts scholar Samuel Williston. Professor Movsesian argues that the conventional account of Williston's jurisprudence presents an incomplete and distorted picture. While much of Williston 's work can strike a contemporary reader as arid and conceptual, there are strong elements of pragmatism as well. Williston insists that doctrine be justified in terms of real-world consequences, maintains that rules can have only presumptive force, and offers institutional explanations for judicial restraint. As a result, his scholarship shares more in common with today's new formalism than commonly supposed. Even the undertheorized quality of Williston 's …
Twelve Letters From Arthur L. Corbin To Robert Braucher, Joseph M. Perillo
Twelve Letters From Arthur L. Corbin To Robert Braucher, Joseph M. Perillo
Washington and Lee Law Review
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