American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914

Most American legal scholars have described their nineteenth-century predecessors as deductive formalists. In my recent book, Law’s History : American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History, I demonstrate instead that the first generation of professional legal scholars in the United Sta...

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Main Author: David M. Rabban
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Published: Association Clio et Themis 2022-05-01
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description Most American legal scholars have described their nineteenth-century predecessors as deductive formalists. In my recent book, Law’s History : American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History, I demonstrate instead that the first generation of professional legal scholars in the United States, who wrote during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, viewed law as a historically based inductive science. They constituted a distinctive historical school of American jurisprudence that was superseded by the development of sociological jurisprudence in the early twentieth century. This article focuses on the transatlantic context, involving connections between European and American scholars, in which the historical school of American jurisprudence emerged, flourished, and eventually declined.
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spelling doaj-art-7718f5e1b30542b1b42d9b05b97bac3f2025-08-20T02:26:42ZfraAssociation Clio et ThemisClio@Themis2105-09292022-05-01910.35562/cliothemis.1586American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914David M. RabbanMost American legal scholars have described their nineteenth-century predecessors as deductive formalists. In my recent book, Law’s History : American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History, I demonstrate instead that the first generation of professional legal scholars in the United States, who wrote during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, viewed law as a historically based inductive science. They constituted a distinctive historical school of American jurisprudence that was superseded by the development of sociological jurisprudence in the early twentieth century. This article focuses on the transatlantic context, involving connections between European and American scholars, in which the historical school of American jurisprudence emerged, flourished, and eventually declined.https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/1586Holmes Oliver Wendell (1841-1935)Pound Roscoe (1870-1964)Savigny Karl Friedrich von (1814-1875)sociological jurisprudenceMaine Henry Sumner (1822-1888)Brunner Heinrich (1840-1915)
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American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
Clio@Themis
Holmes Oliver Wendell (1841-1935)
Pound Roscoe (1870-1964)
Savigny Karl Friedrich von (1814-1875)
sociological jurisprudence
Maine Henry Sumner (1822-1888)
Brunner Heinrich (1840-1915)
title American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
title_full American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
title_fullStr American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
title_full_unstemmed American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
title_short American Legal Thought in Transatlantic Context, 1870-1914
title_sort american legal thought in transatlantic context 1870 1914
topic Holmes Oliver Wendell (1841-1935)
Pound Roscoe (1870-1964)
Savigny Karl Friedrich von (1814-1875)
sociological jurisprudence
Maine Henry Sumner (1822-1888)
Brunner Heinrich (1840-1915)
url https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/1586
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