Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
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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." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal scholarship, a darker portrait is painted--that of a man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and, as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226015203
ISBN13:9780226015200
Release Date:December 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.34 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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