John Chipman Gray
- Jurist
- John Chipman Gray
- School
- Realist
- Theory
- American Realism; law is what the courts lay down; statutes and precedents are mere sources of law, not law itself, until interpreted by judges.
- Quote
The law of the State or of any organized body of men is composed of the rules which the courts, that is, the judicial organs of that body, lay down for the determination of legal rights and duties.
- Books
The Nature and Sources of the Law
- Propounded
Law as the product of judicial decisions, distinction between law and sources of law
- Definition of law
The science of law, the statement and systematic arrangement of the rules followed by the courts and the principles involved in those rules
- Born
- 1839
- Died
- 1915
- Portrait
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