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Karl Llewellyn


 

Karl Llewellyn was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism.

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He was born in Seattle but grew up in Brooklyn. He attended Yale College and Yale Law School where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. He joined the faculty at Columbia Law School in 1925, where he remained until 1951. While at Columbia, Llewellyn became one of the major legal scholars of his day, and was a major figure in the debate over legal realism. He also served as a drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Related Topics:
Yale - Yale Law School - Columbia Law School - Legal realism - Uniform Commercial Code

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