Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian

Abstract

Journal Article Comparing the Two Legal Realisms-American and Scandinavian Get access Gregory S. Alexander Gregory S. Alexander 1Gregory S. Alexander is A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to the participants at the Conference on American and Scandinavian Legal Realism, sponsored by the Institute of Legal Genetics, Stockholm, for their helpful comments. Marie Sandström and Claes Peterson, both of the University of Stockholm Faculty of Law, and Heikki Pihlajamäki, of the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, offered especially valuable observations on the political dimension of Scandinavian Legal Realism. Thanks also to Terry Fisher and to Claes Peterson for inviting me to the conference. I am also grateful to participants at a Legal Studies Workshop at Cornell and at the Elizabeth Batelle Clark Legal History Colloquium at Boston University School of Law for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Fred Konefsky, Mort Horwitz, and David Lyons offered especially valuable suggestions, and I am much in their debt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 1, Winter 2002, Pages 131–174, https://doi.org/10.2307/840832 Published: 01 January 2002