After the realist revolution : judicial lawmaking in an age of instrumentalist common law jurisprudence / Marin Roger Scordato.

Contents The traditional understanding of lawmaking by appellate courts -- The realist critique of the traditional understanding and the paradigm shift from formalism to instrumentalism -- What does appellate court lawmaking look like within an instrumentalist paradigm? The Tarasoff case as an exemplar -- Problematic aspects of instrumentalist court lawmaking within a formalist framework -- Other aspects of current American law that reflect the paradigm shift from formalism to instrumentalism -- Stipulations, clarifications, and elaborations -- Empirical instrumentalist analysis : understanding the absence of a duty to reasonably rescue in American tort law -- Conceptual instrumentalist analysis : understanding the purpose and function of causation in tort law -- The paradigm shift from formalism to instrumentalism and constitutional law -- The nature of legal scholarship in the postrealist era.
Abstract "This book offers a sophisticated and yet fully accessible account of modern lawmaking by appellate courts. It highlights the many ways in which the current approach to this important societal task is incompatible with the practices and procedures that have remained in place from an earlier era"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Scordato, Professor Marin Roger. After the realist revolution Cambridge, United KIngdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025 9781009589307
Issued in other formebook version : 9781009589307
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