##  [Legal Realism](/index.php/legal-realism) 

  ##  [Legal Realism](https://social.quantumdictionary.io/legal-realism-0) 

  

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Definition

A jurisprudential perspective asserting that law’s content and application are substantially shaped by social, political, and economic conditions and by decision-makers’ discretionary choices, so that legal outcomes cannot be understood solely as mechanical deductions from abstract rules.