William Lawrence Twining (1934—2025) : Leading Jurist and Reformer of Legal Education and Scholarship.

Sugarman, David (2025) William Lawrence Twining (1934—2025) : Leading Jurist and Reformer of Legal Education and Scholarship. Socio-Legal Newsletter (the Newsletter of the Socio-Legal Studies Association) (107). S1-S2. ISSN 0957-7817

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Abstract

William Twining (1934-2025) was Britain's foremost and most influential architect and champion of a broader and more humanistic legal education and scholarship. His work on jurisprudence, legal method, evidence and proof, intellectual history, globalisation, and legal education galvanised generations of students, law teachers and practitioners worldwide. William's work on Karl Llewellyn, with whom he had studied in the late 1950’s, notably, The Karl Llewellyn Papers (University of Chicago Law School, 1968) and Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (Cambridge University Press 1973, 2nd edn 2012), challenged many misconceptions concerning Llewellyn’s ideas and the legal realist movement and set in train a significant re-evaluation of their nature and significance. This blog post tribute to William provides an overview of his life and work. It was originally published by the Socio-Legal Studies Association in Socio-Legal Newsletter • No 107 • Autumn/Winter 2025 pp. S1-S2 (pdf download).