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Title: Benjamin Cardozo
Authors: Miraut Martín, Laura 
UNESCO Clasification: 560203 Filosofía del derecho
Keywords: Judicial Process
Legal Realism
Philosophy of Pragmatism
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer 
Abstract: Home Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Reference work entry Cardozo, Benjamin Laura Miraut Martín Reference work entry First Online: 16 December 2023 Introduction Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870–1938) is, together with Oliver Wendell Holmes (whom he succeeded as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court) and Roscoe Pound, one of the maximum representatives of the anti-formalist school of thought described as “sociological jurisprudence” which was highly influential in North America in the early decades of the twentieth century. Cardozo’s protagonism in the juridical culture of his time is twofold: as a judge and as a legal theorist. The two are, in any event, facets that are intertwined. On the one hand, his rulings (recognized for being thoroughly adapted to the new needs of a society in a continual process of transformation) represent a genuine expression of his theoretical thinking. On the other hand, his extrajudicial writings were mediatized by the final aim of providing the reader with an analysis of the correct legal decision. Cardozo already advances the nucleus of his ideas in The Nature of the Judicial Process...
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/128722
ISBN: 978-94-007-6518-4 ; eBook 978-94-007-6519-1
Source: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy / Mortimer Sellers, Stephan Kirste (eds.), p. 382-387
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