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

In the contemporary domain of American legal thought there is a dominant way in which lawyers and judges craft their argumentative practice. More colloquially, this is a dominant conception of what it means to 'think like a lawyer'. Despite the widespread popularity of this conception, it is rarely described in detail or given a name. Justin Desautels-Stein tells the story of how and why this happened, and why it matters. Drawing upon and updating the work of Harvard Law School's first generation of critical legal studies, Desautels-Stein develops what he calls a jurisprudence of style. In doing so, he uncovers the intellectual alliance, first emerging at the end of the nineteenth century and maturing in the last third of the twentieth century, between American pragmatism and liberal legal thought. Applying the tools of legal structuralism and phenomenology to real-world cases in areas of contemporary legal debate, this book develops a practice-oriented understanding of legal thought.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: DESAUTELS STE JUSTI, Justin Desautels-Stein, Justin (University of Colorado Bo Desautels-Stein, Justin (University of Colorado Boulder) Desautels-Stein
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107156654
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15665-4
• Pages: 316
• Thèmes: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; 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