The Path of the Law and Its Influence

The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, JR
Herausgeber: Burton, Steven J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together distinguished legal scholars to examine a seminal work in American legal theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780521630061
• ISBN-10: 0521630061
• Artikelnr.: 21358360

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction Steven J. Burton
1. Law as a vocation: Holmes and the lawyer's path Robert W. Gordon
2. The bad man and the good lawyer David Luban
3. Why practice needs ethical theory: particularism, principle and bad behaviour Martha C. Nussbaum
4. Theories, anti-theories and norms: comment on Nussbaum Dan M. Kahan
5. Traversing Holmes's path toward a jurisprudence of logical form Scott Brewer
6. Holmes on the logic of the law Thomas C. Grey
7. Holmes versus Hart: the bad man in legal theory Stephen R. Perry
8. The bad man and the internal point of view Scott J. Shapiro
9. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William James: the bad man and the moral life Catherine Peirce Wells
10. Emerson and Holmes: serene skeptics Sanford Levinson
11. The path dependence of the law Clayton P. Gillette
12. Changing the path of the law Gillian K. Hadfield
13. Holmes, economics and classical realism Brian Leiter
14. Comment on Brian Leiter's 'Holmes, Economics and Classical Realism' Jody S. Kraus
Appendix: the path of the law (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Index.