Legal Realism Explains Nothing

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This Article presents the argument that American legal realism as derived from Oliver Wendell Holmes’s prediction theory of law was misinterpreted, and that a deeper examination of law as prediction might help to reduce the pathology of judicial lawmaking that has been the unfortunate consequence of legal realism.

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Legal realism, United States

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Anthony D'Amato (Northwestern University)

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