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  • The most renowned American legal theorist in the middle decades of the twentieth century, Lon Luvois Fuller taught contract law and jurisprudence at Harvard Law School from 1939 to his retirement in 1972. He established his place in American letters in the early 1930s with three articles on legal fictions and several probing criticisms of the excesses of legal realism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Fuller, Lon L. (1902–1978)]

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