Law without values : the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes / Albert W. Alschuler.
Law without values : the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes / Albert W. Alschuler.
Law without values : the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes / Albert W. Alschuler.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N347.73/ 7
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English
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x, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Moral Skepticism in Twentieth-Century American Law -- Ch. 2. A Power-Focused Philosophy -- Ch. 3. Would You Have Wanted Justice Holmes as a Friend? -- Ch. 4. The Battlefield Conversion of Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Ch. 5. Holmes's Opinions -- Ch. 6. Judging the Common Law -- Ch. 7. The Descendi...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Illinois
Date Published
2000.
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"In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and the "most illustrious figure in the history of American law." In Law without Values, Albert W. Alschuler paints a darker picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and as...
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Law without values : the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes / Albert W. Alschuler.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-306) and index.
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0226015203
9780226015200 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226015203 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226015217 (pbk.)
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9780226015217
0226015211
9780226015200
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347.732634
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991014150179702626
