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Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

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Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

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About Karl Llewellyn

Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was an American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th century.