Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor of law or philosophy at Oxford, Yale, and the Universities of Paris X and Rome III, among others. He is the author of Naturalizing Jurisprudence (OUP, 2007), Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (OUP, 2019), and (with J. Edwards) Marx (Routledge, 2025). He is also editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law.

• 1. What is Realism?Part I: Realism about Law and Legal Reasoning2. Explaining Theoretical Disagreement3. Theoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look4. Postscript on Theoretical Disagreements5. Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law 6. Realism about Precedent7. How to Cabin the Realist Indeterminacy Thesis8. The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism9. Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence Part II: Realism about Courts, Politics, and Morality10. Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What is the Issue?11. In Praise of Realism (and Against "Nonsense" Jurisprudence)12. Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the U.S. Supreme Court as Super-Legislature13. The Roles of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View14. The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community15. Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation16. Normativity for Naturalists17. The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy 18. Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory: A Polemic 19. Foucault as a Kind of Realist: Genealogical Critique and the Debunking of Human Sciences

[A] very good book, indeed and... a significant milestone in contemporary general jurisprudence.