The learned author argues that law is fundamentally an art rather than a science, contrasting the two...
Jurisprudence
The American legal order in late 2025 is undergoing its most dramatic period of doctrinal and institutional...
The Law and Economics movement, centered at the University of Chicago from the 1960s onward, applied microeconomic...
Free-speech doctrine began with the World War I cases (Schenck’s “clear and present danger”) and evolved through...
Substantive due process—protecting certain rights even without procedural violations—has generated enduring controversy in American constitutional law. From...
The twentieth century marked a decisive shift in the United States from a judicially developed common-law system...
American Legal Realism emerged between 1920 and 1945 as a loose intellectual movement bound together by its...
American law is a complex, evolving system made up of multiple overlapping sources. At its top is...
It is the main duty of government, if it is not the sole duty of government, to...
In his lecture, Benjamin N. Cardozo explores the nature of the judicial process, emphasizing its philosophical and...
My analysis of the judicial process comes then to this, and little more: logic, and history, and...
In countries where statutes are oftener confined to the announcement of general principles, and there is no...
The end of Jurisprudence, viz. the Protection of Rights.—Importance of the Inquiry, as involving Human Happiness.—Confusion in...
A spiritual order, like that of the Roman Catholic Church, which does not propagate itself in direct...