Karl Llewellyn as Pragmatist
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In this article my aim is to see Karl Llewellyn as a member of the central pragmatist canon. Further, I see Llewellyn not only as a “Legal Pragmatist,” but also as developing a full pragmatist philosophy of law. Reading Llewellyn as a pragmatist would greatly add to an extended understanding of early pragmatism. This would show a strong influence of pragmatic thought within the legal academy.. Second, adding Llewellyn to the pragmatist canon would help show pragmatism in action in the world. Llewellyn might be the central theoretical pragmatist of modern US Law. If, as I believe, pragmatism is a philosophy that depends upon an underlying experimentalist attitude towards philosophizing, given his great influence on US law adding Llewellyn brings a large amount of experimentalist data to the tradition.
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Ansandi, Michael. The German Llewellyn. 58 Brooklyn Law Review 705 (1992).
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Leiter, Brian. Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
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Llewellyn, Karl N. Papers [Box 36, Folder 15], Hannah Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library (1949).
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Llewellyn, Karl N. The Theory of Rules, Fredrick Shauer, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
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Scharffs, Brent G. Law as Craft. 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 2245 (2001).
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Twining, William. The Karl Llewellyn Papers (Chicago 1968).
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White, G. Edward. From Realism to Critical Legal Studies: A Truncated Intellectual History. 40 sw l j 819 (1986).
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Karl Llewellyn as Pragmatist
In: Contemporary PragmatismSearch for other papers by Brian E. Butler in
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In this article my aim is to see Karl Llewellyn as a member of the central pragmatist canon. Further, I see Llewellyn not only as a “Legal Pragmatist,” but also as developing a full pragmatist philosophy of law. Reading Llewellyn as a pragmatist would greatly add to an extended understanding of early pragmatism. This would show a strong influence of pragmatic thought within the legal academy.. Second, adding Llewellyn to the pragmatist canon would help show pragmatism in action in the world. Llewellyn might be the central theoretical pragmatist of modern US Law. If, as I believe, pragmatism is a philosophy that depends upon an underlying experimentalist attitude towards philosophizing, given his great influence on US law adding Llewellyn brings a large amount of experimentalist data to the tradition.
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| Abstract Views | 73 | 73 | 14 |
| Full Text Views | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 180 | 180 | 10 |