"The path of the law" and its influence : the legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. /

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Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy and law
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4222788
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Other authors / contributors:Burton, Steven J.
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
Kahan, Dan M.
Leiter, Brian
ISBN:0521630061 (hb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Law as a vocation: Holmes and the lawyer's path
  • 2. The bad man and the good lawyer
  • 3. Why practice needs ethical theory: particularism, principle and bad behaviour
  • 4. Theories, anti-theories and norms: comment on Nussbaum
  • 5. Traversing Holmes's path toward a jurisprudence of logical form Scott Brewer
  • 6. Holmes on the logic of the law
  • 7. Holmes versus Hart: the bad man in legal theory
  • 8. The bad man and the internal point of view Scott
  • 9. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William James: the bad man and the moral life
  • 10. Emerson and Holmes: serene skeptics
  • 11. The path dependence of the law
  • 12. Changing the path of the law
  • 13. Holmes, economics and classical realism
  • 14. Comment on Brian Leiter's 'Holmes, Economics and Classical Realism'
  • Appendix. the path of the law
  • Index