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Pragmatism's Mundanity: Epistemic Foundations for Practicing Sociolegal Science

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Tamanaha Brian Z., Realistic Social-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 280. $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

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Symposium on Sociolegal Scholarship
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Copyright © 1998 by the Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

Manuela Romero and Richard T. Smith deserve thanks for their editorial comments and support.

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