Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960

Reprint of first and only edition. Originally published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii, 314 pp. As Kalman shows in this important study, the history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960. The Realists' attention to the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, and the judiciary's societal context represented a departure from the scientific casebook method introduced by C.C. Langdell at Harvard University Law School in the 1870s and institutionalized nationally over the following decades.