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Legal Realism

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Fisher, William W., III, Morton J. Horwitz, and Thomas Reed, eds. 1993. American Legal Realism. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Hamilton, Alexander. 1787–88. The Federalist Papers no. 78.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 1963. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown.

Horwitz, Morton J. 1992. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Hovenkamp, Herbert. 2000. "Knowledge About Welfare: Legal Realism and the Separation of Law and Economics." Minnesota Law Review 84 (April).

Krawietz, Werner. 2001. "The Concept of Law Revised—Directives and Norms in the Perspectives of a New Legal Realism." Ratio Juris 14 (March).

Patterson, Dennis M. 2002. Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.

Plato. 1941. The Republic of Plato. Translated by Francis MacDonald Cornford. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Posner, Richard A. 2001. Frontiers of Legal Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press.

——. 1990. Cardozo: A Study in Reputation. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

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