The Common Law
The life of the law explained by experience, not logic — the foundational text of American legal realism.
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”
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The life of the law explained by experience, not logic — the foundational text of American legal realism.
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”
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