Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted "Legal Philosophy in America" (THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, Cheryl Misak, ed., Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article, written for the forthcoming "Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy," offers an overview of the most important American contributions to legal philosophy – American legal realism, law and economics, various critical schools of jurisprudence, Lon Fuller, and Ronald Dworkin – while speculating on what might be distinctive of American legal philosophy. One obvious recurring theme is a focus on practical application in general, and adjudication (especially constitutional adjudication) in particular.