Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) is, arguably the most important American jurist of the twentieth century, and his essay The Path of the Law, first published in 1898, is the seminal work in American legal theory. This volume brings together some of the most distinguished legal scholars from the United States and Canada to examine competing understandings of The Path of the Law and its implications for contemporary American jurisprudence. For the reader's convenience, the essay is republished in an Appendix. The book will be of interest to professionals and students in the philosophy, history, economics, and sociology of law.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) is, arguably, the most important American jurist of the 20th century, and his essay The Path of the Law, first published in 1898, is the seminal work in American legal theory. This volume brings together some of the most distinguished legal scholars from the United States and Canada to examine competing understandings of The Path of the Law and its implications for contemporary American jurisprudence. For the reader's convenience, the essay is republished in an Appendix. The book will be of interest to professionals and students in the philosophy, history, economics, and sociology of law.
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quietistic thesis, vocational address, bad man thesis, prediction thesis, normative edification, naturalized jurisprudence, judicial incentives, rogue judges, star paging, realistic thesis, incorrigible facts, socialized point, fact abduction, confusion between morality, competing legislative grounds, analogical reasoner, vaguer sanctions, bad norms, naturalistic thesis, separation thesis, rational articulation, compensatory sum, form flatter, explanation conditional, classical realism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard Law Review, United States, Justice Holmes, University of Chicago Press, Journal of Legal Studies, Essential Holmes, Book Notice, Clarendon Press, David Luban, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Dworkin, Yale Law Journal, Collected Legal Papers, William James, Frederick Pollock, Richard Posner, Belknap Press, Brian Leiter, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court New!
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- The Path of the Law (Little Books of Wisdom) by Oliver Holmes on 96 pages
- The Common Law by Wendell Oliver Holmes on 34 pages
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