Jurisprudence of Style - A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism Liberal Legal Thought

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.

List of contents

Overture; 1. The rise and fall of the Harvard School; 2. Towards a jurisprudence of style; 3. Structure and style in time; 4. The classical style 5. The modern style; 6. Liberal legalism and the context of legal thought; 7. American pragmatism; 8. Liberal legalism is dead: long live liberal legalism; 9. Trompe L'oeil liberalism; Coda.

About the author

Justin Desautels-Stein is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder.

Summary

Justin Desautels-Stein focuses on the development of pragmatic liberalism, between 1870 and the present. Using property law, constitutional law, and antitrust law as case studies, he places the intellectual history of liberalism into a contemporary legal context.

Product details

• Authors: DESAUTELS STE JUSTI, Justin Desautels-Stein, Justin (University of Colorado Bo Desautels-Stein, Justin (University of Colorado Boulder) Desautels-Stein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107156654
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15665-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law