TY - JOUR AU - Twining, William AB - INTILODUCTION “ Besides, to state the Philosophy without the philosopher, the ideas of Teufelsdriickh without something of his personality, was it not to insure both of entire misapprehension? ’’ (Sartor Resartus). There can have been few more colourful personalities ever to have engaged in the profession of law teaching than Karl Llewellyn. There can have been even fewer who have presented to the uninitiated such a bewildering fagade of seeming paradoxes: he was probably the only American citizen ever to have been awarded the Iron Cross and, having fought on the German side in 1914, in 1917 he made several unsuccessful attempts to enlist in the American Army; the most ardent evangelist of legal scepticism; an iconoclastic lover of tradition; an ethical relativist with a pronounced sympathy for Natural Law; a ‘‘ rule sceptic ” who devoted the better part of ten years of his life to the drafting of a major code; a tough-minded romantic; a ‘(realist ” who was sometimes accused of extreme nominalism; an unmethodical man of disorderly mind whose greatest contributions were to ‘‘ legal method ”; the teacher of a jurisprudence addressed specifically to the practising lawyer and, paradox of paradoxes, a law TI - TWO WORKS OF KARL LLEWELLYN JF - The Modern Law Review DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2230.1967.tb01157.x DA - 1967-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/two-works-of-karl-llewellyn-z0z6YTdoeu SP - 514 VL - 30 IS - 5 DP - DeepDyve ER -