What Do Good Lawyers Know That the Rest of Us Don’t? Introducing First-Year Law Students to “Legal Realism” (White Paper)

Authors

Gregory Crespi, Southern Methodist University

Date of this Version

8-15-2022

Document Type

Article

Citation

Nebraska Law Bulletin (August 15, 2022)

Comments

Copyright 2022, the author

Abstract

I set forth below the general outline of a short lecture that I usually give to my first–year contract law students, at about the end of their first week of classes, in order to get them started thinking about the process of judicial decision-making, and especially about the “legal realist” perspective on that process.