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Legal Reasoning: Collected Essays includes four essay written over a twenty-year span that present a comprehensive and original account of legal reasoning as by judges, lawyers, and legal academics.

In a work that is likely to becomes the definitive introduction to critical legal theory by a leading theorist of the critical legal studies movement, the Auther has been the first to put together in a systematic way the insight of American legal realism with continental  phenomenology and semiotics. His version of legal reasoning presents it as “work in a medium” deploying a set of “argument-bites” analogous to the words  of a language. The result is simultaneous freedom and constraint. Kennedy then turns his approach to a critique of current European legal theory, with an essay on hart and kelsen and another on the approach of the European jurists pre-occupied with “coherence” and with the “European social model” in the current process of harmonization of European law.