ABSTRACT
Llewellyn (1893-1962), a leading figure in the American realist movement, claimed (see The Common Law Tradition (1960)) to have introduced the term ‘realistic jurisprudence’ into modern legal literature in his 1931 essay on A Realistic Jurisprudencethe Next Step. His enumeration of the characteristics of the realist approach was set out in 18.2.1. He stressed that there was no ‘school of realists’ and that the so-called ‘realist movement’ was merely ‘a ferment’ among some of those American jurists calling for ‘a dynamic jurisprudence’.
