TY - BOOK AU - Duxbury,Neil TI - Patterns of American jurisprudence SN - 9780198264910 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Presss N1 - License restrictions may limit access; College Audience; Oxford University Press, Incorporated N2 - Annotation; This unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century to the present day. The author argues that it is a mistake to view American jurisprudence as a collection of movements and schools which have emerged in opposition to each other. By offering a highly original analysis of legal formalism, legal realism, policy science, process jurisprudence, law and economics, and critical legal studies, he demonstrates that American jurisprudence has evolved as a collection of themes which reflect broader American intellectual and cultural concerns ER -