The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal ScholarsGeorge W. Liebmann Transaction Publishers, 30. 4. 2006 - Počet stran: 367 This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching, but more importantly, an outlook: the common law tradition. That outlook was empirical and tolerant. These values were carried into expression by a group of people who were not part of a cult or faction nor ruled by the herd instinct. Now in paperback, The Common Law Tradition is a collective portrait of five scholars who epitomize the tradition. The focus is Chicago in the 1960s. The five figures considered--Edward H. Levi, Harry Kalven, Jr., Karl Llewellyn, Philip Kurland, and Kenneth Culp Davis--did much to broaden the perspectives of the legal academy. Levi made use of sociology, economics, and comparative law. Kalven collaborated with sociologists on the Jury Project and with economists on tax law and auto compensation plans. Llewellyn's commitment to empirical research underpinned his work on the Uniform Commercial Code. Kurland's approach to constitutional law was highlighted by his insistence on the relevance of legal history. Davis was an energetic comparativist in his work on administrative law. What distinguished these Chicagoans is that their work was practical and rooted in the law, and hence yielded concrete applications. The group's diversity, the tolerant atmosphere in which they taught and wrote, and the attachment of its individual members to empirical approaches differentiate them from today's legal scholars and make their ideas of continuing importance. |
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... Constitutional Rights . In this substantial work , he defined for a generation the limits of states ' power to regulate the conduct of firms and citizens . He praised judi- cial intervention to limit the growing practices of racial ...
... constitutional classic of [ its ] period . " 23 Felix Frankfurter would later observe that his work on the Police Power was a much better forecast of the Constitution that was to be than was the decision of the Supreme Court a year ...
... Constitutional Conven- tion and drafted the provisions bearing on municipal government . His interest in municipal government was later reflected in yet an- other prescient work questioning the use of newly invented zoning boards to ...
... constitutional law was underpinned by his insistence on the relevance of legal history , both American and English ; he left not only fugitive writings but The Founders ' Con- stitution , an important reference book and source document ...
... constitutional re- flections of Richard Epstein , for example , have had little resonance , 1 because of their divorce from historical and comparative perspec- tive and their effort to devise a closed system . The atmosphere in which ...
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Harry Kalven Jr | 79 |
Karl Llewellyn | 149 |
Philip Kurland | 193 |
Kenneth Culp Davis | 251 |
Conclusion | 305 |
Bibliography | 327 |
Table of Cases | 347 |
Index | 353 |
About the Author 367 | |
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