…in the "Oxford Legal Philosophy" series.  Here's the official OUP blurb:

From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and philosophically ambitious account of legal realism and links it, for the first time, to political realism.  Throughout Leiter engages with various legal realist traditions (American, Scandinavian, Italian, French) and with various realist thinkers (from Thucydides to Nietzsche).

Part I, “Realism about Law and Legal Reasoning,” examines the problem of theoretical disagreement, the relation between legal positivism and realism, and the realist theory of precedent and legal indeterminacy, concluding with a penetrating critique of the recent metaphysical inflation of general jurisprudence in America.  Part II, “Realism about Courts, Politics and Morality,” brings the realistic perspective to bear on courts and democracy, as well as on morality (understood as a culturally variably human artifact) and moral philosophy (treated as ethnographic data, irrelevant to political practice).  It concludes with case studies of two realist political thinkers, Marx and Foucault.

I am grateful to OUP for collecting many generous endorsements of the volume, some of which follow. 

Riccardo Guastini (Genoa), the preeminent figure in Italian legal realism (who is also one of the most influential legal philosophers throughout the Latin world), calls the volume "a significant milestone in contemporary general jurisprudence."  Michel Troper (Paris-Nanterre), the leading figure in French legal realism and legal philosophy, says:

Brian Leiter stands today as both the foremost exponent of the American realist tradition and the preeminent scholar of legal realism in its broader theoretical landscape. This volume constitutes not merely a defence of realism, but an erudite and systematically reasoned vindication of its core claims…[I]t succeeds in securing for the realist project a more rigorous, durable, and philosophically coherent foundation. A great book!

Leslie Green, emeritus professor of the philosophy of law at Oxford University, says:

In this outstanding collection, Leiter…insistently asks: How do things here really work?  His answers are always illuminating and, at times, uncomfortable.  With analytic precision and forensic insight, Leiter hauls us before the bar of realism…[and] shreds our moralizing defences….A terrific book.

Paul Miller, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and co-editor of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, offers this endorsement:

Written by the most sophisticated living legal realist, From a Realist Point of View provides a deeply compelling reinterpretation of realist thought….Leiter is also an eminent legal philosopher and the signal contribution of this book lies in its articulation and defense of a philosophically robust vision of realist thought that is Leiter’s own, interlaced with incisive treatment of core questions in general jurisprudence, moral philosophy, and political theory.

The political philosopher (and important contemporary political realist) Enzo Rossi at the University of Amsterdam says:

A masterful, wide-ranging, and original book. It combines jurisprudence, political theory, metaethics, and the history of philosophy with rare clarity, and dissolves the moralising myths and pieties that cloud those disciplines. Brian Leiter's unique achievement is to show, with force and care, how philosophical naturalism, legal realism, and political realism belong together, and why that matters to understand how law and politics work in the real world. Incisive, fearless, and indispensable.

Giorgio Pino, Professor of Philosophy of Law at Roma Tre University:

The book is a brilliant synthesis, recapitulation, and further advancement of the ideas that Leiter has been defending in his last 15 years of intense philosophical work….Leiter’s book is well-argued, always sustained by a detailed, inventive and thought-provoking analysis, and it will no doubt encourage new patterns of inquiry in legal and moral philosophy. Anyone interested in contemporary legal theory will benefit from this book’s careful review of many important jurisprudential topics, and from its subtle arguments advancing the author’s own philosophical proposal.

Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Senior Lecturer in Law, at the University of York:

This collection of essays showcases Brian Leiter at the top of his game….With characteristic rigor, clarity, and wit, Leiter deconstructs moralistic fantasies and elaborates considerably on the research programme first defended in Naturalizing Jurisprudence. Along the way, legal realism receives its most sophisticated philosophical defense to date.