Other approaches to contract theory are found in the writings of legal realists and critical legal studies theorists.
Pound would later turn against the movement and became a leading critic of the legal realists later in his life.
He was no legal realist who cared only for results.
Judge Posner re-examines the traditional legal values the legal realists themselves had earlier challenged.
Certainly he seems to have learned well the old legal realists' message about the tyranny of labels.
It was made to seem very radical by the academic lawyers I mentioned in Chapter I, who called themselves legal "realists."
He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.
Llewellyn and the legal realists put significantly more emphasis on the facts of a specific case than on general legal rules.
The functionalist public lawyers of the interwar years were our equivalent of the American legal realists.
In the 1920's and 30's, the legal realists argued that people should pay attention to the social context of the law as well as human psychology.