legal realism
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Legal realism is a jurisprudential movement that emphasizes how judges actually decide cases in practice—shaped by social, political, and psychological factors—rather than strictly following abstract legal rules.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
→
Roscoe Pound ("sociological jurisprudence") → |
movement |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
("American legal realism")
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influenced |