part PART ONE THE BASIC LEGAL MYTH, AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES
chapter I. The Basic Myth
chapter II. A Partial Explanation
chapter III The Language of the Law: Lawyers as a Profession of Rationalizers
chapter IV Judicial Law-Making
chapter V Legal Realism
chapter VI Beale, and Legal Fundamentalism
chapter VII Verbalism and Scholasticism
chapter VIII Childish Thought-Ways
chapter IX Genetics
chapter X Word-Consciousness
chapter XI Scientific Training
chapter XII The Judging Process and the Judge's Personality
chapter XIII Mechanistic Law; Rules; Discretion; The Ideal Judge
chapter XIV Illusory Precedents: The Future: Judicial Somnambulism
chapter XV Painful Suspension
chapter XVI. The Basic Myth and the Jury
chapter XVII. Codification and the Command Theory of Law
chapter XVIII. The Religious Explanation
part PART TWO THE BASIC MYTH, AND CERTAIN BRILLIANT LEGAL THINKERS
chapter I. Dean Roscoe Pound and the Search for Legal Certainty
chapter II. Jhering and the Kingdom of Justice on Earth
chapter III. Demogue's Belief in the Importance of Deluding the Public
chapter IV Wurzel and the Value of Lay Ignorance
chapter V The Meaning of Compromise
chapter VI. The Candor of Cardozo
part PART THREE CONCLUSION
chapter I. Getting Rid of the Need for Father-Authority
chapter II. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Completely Adult Jurist.