Muddle-headed lawyers? A Few Remarks on Brian Leiter’s «Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law»

• Luca Malagoli ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Genoa

     University of Genoa

     Genoa, Italia

     
• Localización: Analisi e diritto = Análisis y derecho = Law and analysis = Droit et analyse = Análise e direito, ISSN 1126-5779, ISSN-e 2785-7220, Vol. 19, Nº. 2 (Publicado: 02-03-2020), 2019, págs. 117-127
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  • Commenting and discussing some thesis about American Legal Realism exposed in Brian Leiter’s Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law (2019), the article focuses on two main topics. First, I will try to highlight some connections of American Legal Realists with the philosophical scene of their time and, secondly, I will analyze (briefly) some aspects of Felix Cohen’s functional jurisprudence that are maybe more philosophically interesting than Leiter’s reading might induce to think.

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