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The path of the law and its influence : The legacy of oliver Wendell Holmes

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000Description: 354p xiISBN:
  • 9780521037464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.100000 BUR
Contents:
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.
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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.