The Path of the law and its influence : the legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes / edited by Steven J Burton.

New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, -- Jr., -- 1841-1935.

Jurisprudence -- United States.

Lawyers -- United States.

Introduction / Steven J Burton

1. Law as a vocation: Holmes and the lawyer's path / Robert Watson Gordon

2. The Bad man and the good lawyer / David Luban

3. Why practice needs ethical therapy: particularism, principle, and bad behaviour / Martha Craven 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 / Catharine Peirce Wells

10. Emerson and Holmes: serene sceptics / 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

The Path of the law (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jnr).

Includes index.

0521630061

xi, 354 p.