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Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho
Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho
All Faculty Scholarship
Our conceptions of law affect how we objectify the law and ultimately how we study it. Despite a century’s worth of theoretical progress in American law—from legal realism to critical legal studies movements and postmodernism—the formalist conception of “law as science,” as promulgated by Christopher Langdell at Harvard Law School in the late-nineteenth century, still influences methodologies in American legal education. Subsequent movements of legal thought, however, have revealed that the law is neither scientific nor “objective” in the way the Langdellian formalists once envisioned. After all, the Langdellian scientific objectivity of law itself reflected the dominant class, gender, power, …
Bewitched By Language: Wittgenstein And The Practice Of Law, Bruce A. Markell
Bewitched By Language: Wittgenstein And The Practice Of Law, Bruce A. Markell
Pepperdine Law Review
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Particularism And The Struggle For Coherence In The Common Law Literary Tradition, E. P. Krauss
Particularism And The Struggle For Coherence In The Common Law Literary Tradition, E. P. Krauss
Touro Law Review
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The Corporate Counsel And His "Client": Use Of Role Analysis To Illumine Strains In The Lawyer-Client Relationship, John D. Donnell
The Corporate Counsel And His "Client": Use Of Role Analysis To Illumine Strains In The Lawyer-Client Relationship, John D. Donnell
Indiana Law Journal
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