John Wesley Schlegel

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science (Studies in Legal History)

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challe...

Enhancing Committee Effectiveness: Handbook for Committee Chairs, Staff Liaisons, and Committee Members

Effective, successful associations know that they need to minimize bureaucracy, improve decision making, and use their financial and human resources more strategically to adapt, survive, and thrive in a world that moves and changes faster every day. One way to accomplish these goals is to improve co...

Towards a Re-Definition of Development: Essays and Discussion on the Nature of Development in an International Perspective

Towards a Re-Definition of Development: Essays and Discussion on the Nature of Development in an International Perspective reconsiders the generally accepted definition of development based on the assumption that there is no universal method for comprehending development and no one major principle f...

Building Wisdom's House: A Book of Values for Our Time

The leaders of three religious traditions - Judaism, Roman Catholicism, and the Episcopal Church - offer a view of moral virtue that is distinct from the cold individualism put forth by conservatives and the religious right. Using the kind of storytelling that is common to their shared scriptural tr...

Barrier Plastics: The Impact of Emerging Technology

Towards a Re-Definition of Development: Essays and Discussions on the Nature of Development in an International Perspective

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science