Karl Llewellyn
Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (born May 22, 1893 in Seattle , Washington , † February 13, 1962 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American legal scholar who became famous especially in connection with legal realism . He is considered one of the fathers of the Uniform Commercial Code .
Llewellyn joined the German army in 1914 because of his sympathy for Germany and fought on the Western Front. After being wounded in the Battle of Ypres , he was released from military service in 1915. Because of his involvement on the German side, his application for admission to the US Army was rejected after the United States entered the war in 1917.
Fonts (selection)
- Prejudicial Law and Jurisprudence in America: A Selection of Sayings with Review. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Weicher, Leipzig 1933.
- The Cheyenne way: Conflict and case law in primitive jurisprudence. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1941.
- The bramble bush: Some lectures on law and its study. Columbia University, New York 1930.
- The common law tradition: Deciding appeals. Little / Brown, Boston 1960.
- Jurisprudence: Realism in theory and practice. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1962.
- Law, Legal Life and Society. From the estate, ed. by Manfred Rehbinder . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-03960-2 .
- The theory of rules. Edited and with an introduction by Frederick Schauer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2011.
literature
- Lawrence Douglas: Eyes Scratched In. Reflections on The Bramble Bush by Karl Llewellyn (1930) , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 16 (2019), pp. 388–392.
- Ulrich Drobnig and Manfred Rehbinder (eds.): Legal realism, multicultural society and commercial law: Karl N. Llewellyn and its significance today. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08086-6 .
- Maria Anna Rea-Frauchiger: American legal realism: Karl N. Llewellyn, Jerome Frank, Underhill Moore. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-11873-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Llewellyn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Note, Commercial Law and the American Volk: A Note on Llewellyn's German Sources for the Uniform Commercial Code. Yale Law School, p. 2 , accessed May 30, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Llewellyn, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Llewellyn, Karl Nickerson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1962 |
| Place of death | Chicago , Illinois |