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
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: 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
Feedback
Feedback to SSRN
If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday.