legal realist

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandrealist

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
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realist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrɪə.lɪst/us
/ˈriː.ə.lɪst/
someone who hopes for or accepts only what seems possible or likely, and does not hope for or ...
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(Definition oflegalandrealistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One consequence of these personnel changes was the appointment of several justices receptive tolegalrealistinterpretations of economic power and expressive rights.
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There he became an expert on commercial litigation and bankruptcy, and was identified with thelegalrealistmovement.
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This claim is often coupled with thelegalrealistargument that what the law says it does and what it actually tends to do are two different things.
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Legal realists, as well as the broader category of legal progressives, involved themselves in the study of law and its applications.
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By the late twentieth century, legal realists and critical legal scholars honed such insights into a fullfledged critique of a narrow form of legal liberalism.
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The legal realists believe that judges normally behave this way.
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Judgments involving absolute borderline cases give the legal realists a beachhead.
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Some of this relates to critiques by the legal realists who had serious concerns with thinking about and teaching about contracts in a strictly legalistic way.
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Legal realists rejected formalism and static legal rules; instead, they searched for the experiential and the role of human idiosyncrasy in the development of law.
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And legal realists could simply predict that judges would modify the law because the facts of cases would persuade them to do so.
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Other approaches to contract theory are found in the writings of legal realists and critical legal studies theorists.
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Singer continues implying that legal realists did not take the character and structure of social relations as an important independent factor in choosing the rules that govern market life.
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