Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
Abstract
Those of us in legal education and in the profession of law are in debt to the Law Review for publishing in this issue the last work of the late Professor Irvin Rutter, Law, Language, and Thinking Like a Lawyer.
On the occasion of Irvin Rutter's retirement in 1980, I briefly summarized these earlier contributions, locating them within the legal realist tradition, and we awaited the publication of his last work, then still in draft not quite satisfactory to Professor Rutter. In this essay, I situate his final work on teaching law in the pragmatist tradition with special emphasis on Charles Sanders Peirce. I also try to relate the work to scholarly and critical inquiries about law that were just emerging as Rutter completed his 1977 draft.
Recommended Citation
Christenson, Gordon A., "Thinking Things, Not Words: Irvin Rutter's Pragmatic Jurisprudence of Teaching" (1992). Faculty Articles and Other Publications. 156.
https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/fac_pubs/156