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Burton Steven J

The path of the law and its influence : The legacy of oliver Wendell Holmes - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000 - 354p xi

Table of contents
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.

ISBN: 9780521037464

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law - Philosophy 2. Legal Philosophy 3. Law - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Contributions - Legal Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 340.100000 / BUR