Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching for an American Jurisprudence - Hardcover

Hull, N. E. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226360431 ISBN 13: 9780226360430

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

American legal history is traditionally viewed as a series of schools of thought or landmark court decisions, not as the work of individuals. Here, N. E. H. Hull tells the pivotal story of American jurisprudence through two of its most influential shapers: Karl Llewellyn, father of legal realism, poet, and mercurial romantic, and Roscoe Pound, iron-willed leader of sociological jurisprudence. These theorists adapted the legal profession to the changing needs of twentieth-century America.

Through meticulous archival research, Hull shows how the intellectual battles of the day took place against a network of private and public relationships and demonstrates how Pound's and Llewellyn's ideas of jurisprudence sprang from a kind of intellectual bricolage, the pragmatic assemblage of parts rather than the development of a unified whole, that is peculiarly American. Humorous, engaging, and provocative, Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn uncovers the roots of American jurisprudence in the lives of two of its most compelling figures.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226360431
• ISBN 13: 9780226360430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 361