What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don't? Introducing First-Year Law Students to 'Legal Realism'

Nebraska Law Review Bulletin (2022 forthcoming)

SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 565

22 Pages Posted: 1 Jun 2022 Last revised: 10 Aug 2022

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Gregory S. Crespi

Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

Date Written: June 17, 2022

Abstract

This short article presents the general outlines of a lecture that I usually give to my first-year contract law students, at about the end of their first week of classes, to get them started thinking about the process of judicial decision-making, and about the “legal realist” perspective regarding that process.

Keywords: Contracts, legal realism

Suggested Citation

Crespi, Gregory S., What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don't? Introducing First-Year Law Students to 'Legal Realism' (June 17, 2022). Nebraska Law Review Bulletin (2022 forthcoming), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 565, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4112614 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4112614

Gregory S. Crespi (Contact Author)

Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 750116
Dallas, TX 75275
United States

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