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Title: Law Without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes by Albert W. Alschuler ISBN: 0-226-01521-1 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Books without conclusions
Comment: The author might have explored Holmes's skepticism more, but he oddly leaves many questions open that he could have addressed. What values should drive the law? We are left wondering.
Rating: 1
Summary: Judging the Past
Comment: In his own day, Holmes was revered as the greatest, wisest judge in the English-speaking world. Today, however, Holmes' significance is downplayed in law schools across America, or he is trashed as he is in this book. The dramatic decline in Holmes' popularity and influence has resulted from his opinion in a single case, Buck v. Bell (1927), in which Holmes advocated sterilization of "imbeciles." Since the Holocaust, sterilization is understandably unpopular, especially among Jews, who dominate the faculties at America's top law schools and write many widely-used casebooks. Holmes, who wrote his opinion in Buck v. Bell long before the Holocaust, has been lumped into the Nazi camp (the Nazis tried to use Buck v. Bell at Nuernberg to defend their practices) by modern liberals, and many so-called "legal scholars" now dismiss Holmes' ideas without consideration and do not include his opinions in their casebooks. One of the central tenets of historiography is that it is improper to judge historical figures by the moral standards of today. Alschuler violates this principle again and again--excoriating a great mind because of the way its ideas were used by others. Compare this book to THE ESSENTIAL HOLMES, which is both scholarly and readable. It is also written by Judge Posner, an influential modern jurist respected by liberals and conservatives. Do your own reasoning, draw your own conclusions, and be fooled by no one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough scholarship.
Comment: This book is extremely well written, thoroughly researched and possessing the profound perspective of a wise and intelligent writer exercising his science and art with a passion that can be felt just beneath the surface of cool academic analysis. This book is not only of interest to legal historians and philosophers of law, but to any reader wishing to take hold of the main threads which run through the cultural landscape of the modern world.
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Title: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White ISBN: 0195101286 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. by Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes, Richard A. Posner ISBN: 0226675548 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin N. Cardozo ISBN: 0300000332 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1960 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Common Law by Oliver W. Holmes ISBN: 0486267466 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Identity Theft: How to Protect Your Most Valuable Asset by Robert Hammond ISBN: 1564146367 Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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