(UPDATE: Amazon is currently selling the hardcover at an 18% discount [I don’t know why, but I’m not complaining!]

I received my copies the other day here in Chicago.

More information. A couple of devoted souls even bought it on Amazon (despite the price!). (It was ranked about 8 million a week ago.) My thanks!

I know the price is extravagant (it’s a big book, over 460 pages–three totally new chapters, plus revisions to all the others, some fairly substantial), but the e-book is at half the price, and a more reasonably priced paperback will appear in two years. Also, if your university subscribes to Oxford Scholarship Online, you can access it all that way for free.

I couldn’t have asked for a nicer set of endorsements: Michel Troper and Riccardo Guastini are the preeminent figures in French and Italian legal realism, respectively, and very well-known throughout the French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese-speaking jurisprudential worlds (less so, alas, in the Anglophone world, which, as usual, is more parochial than its counterparts abroad). Leslie Green, who previously held Raz’s Chair at Oxford, is no doubt well-known to readers of this blog. Paul Miller is a leading private law theorist and co-editor of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, and, like Green, not a legal realist. Enzo Rossi is probably the leading writer on political realism in Europe, whose work is quite influential throughout the Anglophone literature on this topic.

ADDENDUM: Since some readers asked, authors have no control over the pricing. OUP has jacked up prices for hardcover books across the board, but even I was shocked with what they proposed. I asked if I could pay some amount to reduce the price, but the only option would have been to pay a very large amount ($10,000? maybe it was more, I now forget) to make it open access. Basically, OUP’s pricing structure, as best I can tell, is meant to drive institutional subscriptions to Oxford Scholarship Online, or to drive e-book sales.