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American Legal Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Richard Tur
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Given statements like these about current developments in intellectualizing about law in America it is an exciting time to look at American legal philosophy. Given the ferment in the law schools and the volume of literature in the law journals it is also a difficult task confidently to extract the main lines of current thought and adequately to assess the significance of current intellectual movements. American lawyers are inclined to point out that there is no such thing as ‘American law’. Rather, in addition to Federal law and the Supreme Court's jurisdiction there are some fifty jurisdictions each with its own Constitution, Legislature and Supreme Court and consequently diversity rather than uniformity is the rule. Equally, the very idea that there is some single, coherent and widely accepted theory of law deserving description as ‘American legal philosophy’ obviously begs all manner of significant questions.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 19: American Philosophy , March 1985 , pp. 255 - 272
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1985

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