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Karl Llewellyn

Overview

Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was an American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th century.

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Philosophers who discussed Karl Llewellyn

• Hans Kelsen
• Roscoe Pound
• Lon L. Fuller

Related ideas

• Jurisprudence
• Lawyer
• Law enforcement
• University of Chicago Press
• Legal realism
• Yale University
• Yale Law School
• World War I
• Chicago
• University of Paris

Place in the tradition

Part of Jurisprudence.

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