Karl N. Llewellyn

Thinkers1893 to 1962Legal scholar

Works

  • The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals, Little, Brown, 1960

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A leading figure of American legal realism, at Columbia and then Chicago, and chief drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code. His last major book studies how appellate courts actually reason from precedent, and why their results are more predictable than the realists' critics feared.

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