BOOK: Giovanni TARELLO, Il realismo giuridico americano (Roma: Roma Tre Press 2023). ISBN: 979-12-5977-213-8, pp. 300 (ristampa, open access)

(Source: Roma Tre Press)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Published in 1962, Il realismo giuridico americano introduced Italian jurists - hitherto little interested in what was produced by U.S. legal culture - to an innovative and irreverent current of thought, inspired by an overtly anti-formalist methodology and by a programmatic connection of law to other social sciences (economics, sociology, anthropology). But not only that. Il realismo giuridico americano also imposed, in the panorama of Italian legal culture, the personality of Giovanni Tarello: then still 28 years old, but already perfectly recognizable in his traits as an acute analyst of the mentality and operations of jurists, and as a brilliant demystifier of received clichés.

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