Table of Contents:
  • Non-instrumental views of law -- Changing society and common law in the 19th century -- Nineteenth century legislation and legal profession -- Instrumentalism of the legal realists -- 20th century Supreme Court instrumentalism -- Instrumentalism in legal academia in 1970's -- Instrumentalism in theories of law -- Instrumentalism in the legal profession -- Instrumentalism of cause litigation -- Instrumentalism and the judiciary -- Instrumentalism in legislation and administration -- Collapse of higher law, deterioration of common good -- The threat to legality.