"Neil Duxbury's splendid book will provide enjoyable and informative reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence.It is a very fine book that fully deserves the high praise which it will undoubtedly receive."-- The Cambridge Law Journal "In a meticulously researched, coherently structured, and extremely readable text Duxbury offers the reader an intellectual history of American jurisprudence brimming with insight and critical analysis."-- Legal Studies " Patterns of American Jurisprudence is an extremely thorough, informative, and persuasive study of American jurisprudence since the 1870s. Duxbury's historical analyses of legal realism and law and economics are highly original and impressive, and his chapetr on critical legal studies is the best thing I have ever read on the subject."--Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit " Patterns of American Jurisprudence is a fresh interpretation of familiar territory and one of the first attempts to make sense of the contemporary scene. It will inform and challenge every historian of American legal thought.

"--he American Journal of Legal History "A tour de force. [This book] deserves to be universally read."--Satvinder Juss, Indiana University.