Lon. L. Fuller and the Canon of American Legal Thought

Authors

  • David Kennedy Universidad de Brown, Estados Unidos
  • ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral Brunel University London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/revintpensampolit.1799

Keywords:

American legal thought, legal methodology, legal realism, Harvard

Abstract

The essay places Lon Fuller among the originators of the post-war style of legal reasoning preoccupied with the balancing of diverse and conflicting purposes and ethical commitments thought to be immanent in legal materials. It does also situates Fuller as an important figure in two narrative lines of the history of American legal thought. In the first, Fuller contributed interesting and important elements to the eclectic toolkit of contemporary legal reasoning. thought to be immanent in legal materials. The second story has more conflict and drama. Fuller was part of a generation of scholars displacing the analytic methods of their predecessors with new thinking a generation which would be in turn attacked and dismissed, even as many of the argumentative moves he and his colleagues pioneered sank into the background of routine legal consciousness.

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References

Fisher, William W., and Kennedy, D. (2016). The Canon of American Legal Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Fuller, L. “American Legal Realism,” 82 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 429 (1934), p. 443.

Fuller, L. “The Form and Limits of Adjudication,” 92 Harvard Law Review, (1978) pp. 353-364.

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Published

2016-03-02

How to Cite

Kennedy, D., & de la Rasilla del Moral, ignacio . (2016). Lon. L. Fuller and the Canon of American Legal Thought. International Journal of Political Thought, 4, 165–180. https://doi.org/10.46661/revintpensampolit.1799

Issue

Vol. 4 (2009): Volumen 4 (2009)

Section

Estudios Varios

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