THE FORMS AND LIMITS OF ADJUDICATION.

The initial version of The Forms and Limits of Adjudication was circulated to the members of the Legal Philosophy Discussion Group at Harvard Law School in 1957. A revised and expanded version was prepared in 1959 for use in Mr. Fuller's course in Jurisprudence and for discussion at the Round Table on Jurisprudence at the 1959 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. Further refinements resulted in a third version for classroom use in 1961 ; I have followed that version here. The editing has consisted principally of minor grammatical corrections and changes of punctuation; the addition of several paragraphs in Part VI, section 2 (see note 22) ; and the identification, where possible, of important references and sources, which are inserted in brackets. I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Marjorie Fuller, who made it possible for me to examine the library and private papers of her late husband. The complete essay has never before been published, but portions of it were included in two articles by Mr. Fuller: Adjudication and the Rule of Law, 54 PROC. AM. Soc'Y INT'L L. I (1960) and Collective Bargaining and the Arbitrator, 1963 Wis. L. REv. 3. Mr. Fuller also granted permission for the printing of a substantial part of the essay in AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS: READINGS IN JUDICIAL PROCESS AND BEHAVIOR (S. Goldman & A. Sarat eds. i978). That Mr. Fuller never published the entire essay is due, I believe, to a plan he formulated in 1958 or 1959 to expand it into a book of the same title. By 1960 the projected volume had become The Principles of Social Order, an essay in eunomics--that is, in Mr... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]