Word: pragmatists
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice. He has seen that, in any society, it is merely the will that has known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community...