Those who declare allegiance to the banner of legal realism might just as easily be called sceptics (and they sometimes are) or even cynics. Indeed, many students—especially after their gruelling journey through legal positivism—find that they are in good company. The realists, they are relieved to discover, eschew the ponderous metaphysics which they discern in...Read More

“The life of the law has not been logic – it has been experience” He is often known as the intellectual father of Legal Realism Holmes was a lawyer for 15 years, a judge on the Supreme Court of Massachusetts for 20 years and an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court for 30...Read More