Thurman Wesley Arnold
- Jurist
- Thurman Wesley Arnold
- School
- American Legal Realism
- Theory
- Legal Realism; institutional and symbolic functionalism — law and government as systems of symbols and folklore that legitimise power.
- Quote
Law is primarily a great reservoir of emotionally important social symbols.
- Books
The Symbols of Government (1935), The Folklore of Capitalism (1937)
- Propounded
Symbolic functionalism (Legal Realism); law and government as systems of symbols and folklore that legitimise power
- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1969
- Portrait
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