From a Realist Point of View

From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and philosophically ambitious account of legal realism and links it, for the first time, to political realism. Throughout, Leiter engages with various legal realist traditions (American, Scandinavian, Italian, French) and realist thinkers, from Thucydides to Nietzsche. Part I, "Realism about Law and Legal Reaso...