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Law without values : the life, work, and legacy of Justice Holmes

Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him
Print Book, English, 2000
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000
collective biographies
x, 325 pages ; 24 cm
9780226015200, 9780226015217, 0226015203, 0226015211
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Moral skepticism in twentieth-century American law
A power-focused philosophy
Would you have wanted Justice Holmes as a friend?
The battlefield conversion of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes's opinions
Judging the common law
The descending trail : Holmes's path of the law
The beatification of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ending the slide from Socrates and climbing back