Part One THE BASIC LEGAL MYTH, AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES 3
Ⅰ.The Basic Myth 3
Ⅱ.A Partial Explanation 13
Ⅲ.The Language of the Law: Lawyers as a Profession of Rationalizers 22
Ⅳ.Judicial Law-Making 32
Ⅴ.Legal Realism 42
Ⅵ.Beale, and Legal Fundamentalism 48
Ⅶ.Verbalism and Scholasticism 57
Ⅷ.Childish Thought-Ways 69
Ⅸ.Genetics 76
Ⅹ.Word-Consciousness 84
ⅩⅠ.Scientific Training 93
ⅩⅡ.The Judging Process and the Judge’s Personality 1ooⅩⅢ.Mechanistic Law； Rules； Discretion； The Ideal Judge 118
ⅩⅣ.Illusory Precedents: The Future: Judicial Somnam- bulism 148
ⅩⅤ.Painful Suspension 160
ⅩⅥ.The Basic Myth and the Jury 170
ⅩⅦ.Codification and the Command Theory of Law 186
ⅩⅧ.The Religious Explanation 196
Part Two THE BASIC MYTH, AND CERTAIN BRILLIANT LEGAL THINKERS 207
Ⅰ.Dean Roscoe Pound and the Search for Legal Certainty 207
Ⅱ.Jhering and the Kingdom of Justice on Earth 217
Ⅲ.Demogue’s Belief in the Importance of Deluding the Public 222
Ⅳ.Wurzel and the Value of Lay Ignorance 229
Ⅴ.The Meaning of Compromise 232
Ⅵ.The Candor of Cardozo 236
Part Three CONCLUSION 243
Ⅰ.Getting Rid of the Need for Father-Authority 243
Ⅱ.Mr.Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Completely Adult Jurist 253
Appendixes 263
Ⅰ.Other Explanations 263
Ⅱ.Notes on Rule-Fetichism and Realism 264
Ⅲ.Science and Certainty: An Unscientific Use of Science 285
Ⅳ.Notes on Pound’s Views 289
1.On the Nature of the Desire for Legal Certainty 289
2.Some Traditional Elements in American Law 295
Ⅴ.Notes on the Jury 302
Ⅵ.Notes on Codification 310
Ⅶ.Notes on Fictions 312
Ⅷ.For Readers Who Dislike References to “ Uncon- scious Mental Processes” 323
Ⅸ.Reference Notes, by Chapters 325
Ⅹ.Addenda to Second Printing 356
1.Concerning Partial Explanations 356
2.The “ Conceptual ” Nature of Psychological Ex- planations 356
3.The Difference beween （a） What Exists or Can Exist and （b） What One Would Like to Have Exist 361
Index 363