Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960

Kalman, Laura. Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii, 314 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-203-4. Cloth. $95. * The history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists' attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, and the judiciary in a societal context represented a departure from the scientific casebook method espoused by C.C. Langdell at Harvard University Law School in the 1870s, and later supported by Roscoe Pound.Kalman, Laura is the author of 'Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960' with ISBN 9781584772033 and ISBN 1584772034.