Jan 19, 2026
the law is the act of predicting
Holmes’s “prediction theory” defines law as the practical prediction of what courts will do, especially from the standpoint of a “bad man” who cares about consequences rather than morals . That formul...
Legal Realism
A school of thought that emphasizes the role of judges and the courts in shaping the law, and that law should be studied as a social and empirical phenomenon.