Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Jurisprudence as Intellectual History
1: The Challenge of Formalism
2: The Evolution of a Mood
3: Lawyers for the Future
4: Finding Faith in Reason
5: Economics in Law
6: Uses of Critique
Index
Contributors

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Winner of the 1996 SPTL First Prize for outstanding legal scholarship.

About the Author

Professor Neil Duxbury is a Reader in Law at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

`Neil Duxbury's splendid book will provide enjoyable and informative reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence ... It is a very fine book that fully deserves the high praise which it will undoubtedly receive.'
The Cambridge Law Journal
`In a meticulously researched, coherently structured and extremely readable text Duxbury offers the reader an intellectual history of American jurisprudence brimming with insight and critical analysis.'
Legal Studies
`Patterns of American Jurisprudence is an extremely thorough, informative and persuasive study of American jurisprudence since the 1870s. Duxbury's historical analyses of legal realism and law and economics are highly original and impressive, and his chapter on critical legal studies is the best thing I have ever read on the subject.'
Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit