Law Without Values
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Law Without Values
Author: Albert W. Alschuler
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2000
Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him.
Law Without Values
Author: Albert W. Alschuler
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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 makes right."
Law Without Values
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 makes right."