Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Legal Formalists
6. 2. The Myth about Beliefs in the Common Law 13
7. 3. The Myth about “Mechanical Jurisprudence” 27
8. 4. The Holes in the Story about Legal Formalism 44
9. Part Two. The Legal Realists
10. 5. Realism before the Legal Realists 67
11. 6. A Reconstruction of Legal Realism 91
12. Part Three. Studies of Judging
13. 7. The Slant in the “Judicial Politics” Field 111
14. 8. What Quantitative Studies of Judging Have Found 132
15. Part Four. Legal Theory
16. 9. The Emptiness of “Formalism” in Legal Theory 159
17. 10. Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide 181
18. Afterword 200
19. Notes 203
20. Index 251