What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don't? Introducing First-Year Law Students to 'Legal Realism'

Authors

Gregory S. Crespi, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of LawFollow

ORCID (Links to author’s additional scholarship at ORCID.org)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-9191

Abstract

This short article presents the general outlines of a lecture that I usually give to my first-year contract law students, at about the end of their first week of classes, to get them started thinking about the process of judicial decision-making, and about the “legal realist” perspective regarding that process.

Publication Title

Nebraska Law Review Bulletin

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Contracts, legal realism

Recommended Citation

Gregory Crespi, What Do Good Lawyers Know That the Rest of Us Don't? Introducing First-Year Law Students to "Legal Realism" (White Paper), 2022 NEB. L. REV. BULLETIN 1 (2022)