Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1989
Abstract
To establish a starting point for the analysis, I begin by identifying and discussing the possible functions served by scholarship in a legal environment defined by the classic jurisprudence of natural law. I then consider the intellectual challenge posed to natural law jurisprudence by the modern Legal Realist movement and the consequences of that challenge for legal scholarship in particular. Lastly, I attempt to characterize the mainstream of current legal scholarship as a series of variations on two very basic intellectual responses to the modern Realist critique of established legal process and traditional legal scholarship.
Recommended Citation
Marin Roger Scordato, Legal Theory and Linguistic Reality: A Critical Examination of Modern Legal Scholarship, 2 J. CONTEM. LEGAL ISSUES 257 (1989).