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Review essay ofInstrumentalism and American Legal Theory by Robert Samuel Summers, Cornell University Press, 1982. Page references to the text appear in parentheses. This research was assisted by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies under a program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am very grateful for their support. I also wish to thank Hugo Bedau, Martin Golding, David Lyons, and Kenneth Winston for helpful materials, discussion, and comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Decew, J.W. Realities about legal realism. Law Philos 4, 405–422 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00698475
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