Experimental Jurisprudence

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Essay
Some Doubts About Folk Jurisprudence: The Case of Proximate Cause
Felipe Jiménez
Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Southern California.

Many thanks to Anya Bernstein, Lewis Kornhauser, Alexandra Lahav, Marcela Prieto, Anthony Sebok, Dan Simon, Kevin Tobia, Nina Varsava, and Benjamin Zipursky for comments on previous drafts.

According to a relatively common view, general jurisprudence is an exercise aimed at understanding “our ordinary concept of law.”