The Constraint of Legal Doctrine
As the dominant approach to legal analysis in the United States today, Legal Realism is firmly ensconced in the way… Continue reading →
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Doctrinal Categories, Legal Realism, and the Rule of Law
The claim in vogue is that Legal Realism stands for “the insignificance of doctrine” and its conceptualization as a “mere… Continue reading →
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Equity's Unstated Domain: The Role of Equity in Shaping Copyright Law
As used today, the term “equity” connotes a variety of related, but nonetheless distinct, ideas. In most contexts, equity refers… Continue reading →
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Nine Takes on Indeterminacy, With Special Emphasis on the Criminal Law
The claim that legal disputes have no determinate answer is an old one. The worry is one that assails every… Continue reading →
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Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine
The American Legal Realists did not reject doctrine, because they did not reject the idea that judges decide cases in… Continue reading →
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Family Law's Doctrines
The father of the American law school, Christopher Columbus Langdell, famously conceptualized the law as akin to science. On this… Continue reading →
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Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe—from Themselves
As the Great Recession has painfully demonstrated, housing bubbles pose an enormous threat to economic stability. However, the principal mortgage… Continue reading →
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A Dose of Reality for Specialized Courts: Lessons from the VICP
The latest in a long line of reform proposals, health courts have been called “the best option for fixing our… Continue reading →
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Judicial Priorities
In an unprecedented move, the Illinois Supreme Court in the mid-1990s imposed hard caps on the state’s appeals courts, drastically… Continue reading →
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Structure and Value in the Common Law
Common law concepts have fallen into disrepute among legal theorists. The rise of Legal Realism in the early twentieth century… Continue reading →