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Preferred term
legal realism
Definition
- Legal realism, as an approach to politics and law, developed in the early twentieth century. It arose in response to the mechanistic view that the law was objective and unchanging, not influenced by external events, and was distinct and separate from politics. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Legal Realism]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/legal_realism
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