Legal Realism

The development of Legal Realism took place by the end of the _____ century.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

In Legal Realism, judges find the law. They do not make it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

According to Holmes, “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been ______."

• conventional mechanisms

• experience

• deduction

• induction

Legal rules are central to judicial decision-making.

• Legal Formalism

• Natural Law

• Legal Realism

The law will be still in effect. However, it cannot be enforced because of change in circumstances.

• Judicial Legislation

• Legal Realism

• Dead Letter

• Prediction Theory

Jerome Frank proposed the Prediction Theory

• True

• False

It is Oliver Holmes who proposed the three main concepts of law.

• True

• False

Realism holds that what one perceives is real and out there existing in concrete reality.

• True

• False

According to Prediction Theory Law can be best understood by focusing on what lawyers actually do on deciding cases rather that what they say they are doing

• True

• False

Llewellyn and the legal realists proposed that the facts and outcomes of specific cases composed the law, rather than logical reasoning from legal rules.

• True

• False