TY - CHAP
T1 - Dewey, John
AU - Tamanaha, Brian Z.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - John Dewey (1859–1952) wrote a handful of essays on various legal topics, and he made sprinkled references to law in his voluminous body of work (for informative analyses of Dewey’s perspective on law see Patterson (1950); Donoso (1959)). He did not elaborate a special theory of law, but rather analyzed legal matters from a pragmatic standpoint, treating law like other social institutions. This entry therefore begins with a summary of pragmatism. Then it addresses, in order, three topics Dewey covered with enduring significance: his critique of natural law, his account of judicial decision-making, and his social theory of law.
AB - John Dewey (1859–1952) wrote a handful of essays on various legal topics, and he made sprinkled references to law in his voluminous body of work (for informative analyses of Dewey’s perspective on law see Patterson (1950); Donoso (1959)). He did not elaborate a special theory of law, but rather analyzed legal matters from a pragmatic standpoint, treating law like other social institutions. This entry therefore begins with a summary of pragmatism. Then it addresses, in order, three topics Dewey covered with enduring significance: his critique of natural law, his account of judicial decision-making, and his social theory of law.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85176285452
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-19550-1_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-19550-1_5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85176285452
T3 - Studies in the History of Law and Justice
SP - 33
EP - 43
BT - Studies in the History of Law and Justice
PB - Springer Nature
ER -