Pragmatic Instrumentalism in Twentieth Century American Legal Thought-a Synthesis and Critique of Our Dominant General Theory About Law and Its Use

Abstract

This list is not exhaustive.Many readers will see what seem to be significant omissions.Only the principal progenitors and enough others are included to provide substance to the rise and continuity of the general movement in legal thought singled out here for study.These thinkers were all lawyers, law professors, or judges, except Dewey, the only professional philosopher.Dewey wrote several essays on law, however, and his general philosophy influenced most instrumentalists