The Common Law - Brossura

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0760754985 ISBN 13: 9780760754986

Casa editrice: Barnes & Noble, 2004

Riassunto

The Common Law changed America forever. The lectures---which were given at the Lowell Institute in Boston and subsequently published in 1880---created a buzz of excitement that enveloped the New England intellectual community. Over a century later, we can look back at The Common Law and still feel the same sense of excitement that our predecessors did, virtually undiminished by the tumultuous decades of American jurisprudence that have followed. It remains an exhilarating landmark in law because its content and its style, its substance and its process, perfectly mirror what common law is: a complex and diffuse combination of actual cases, history, analysis, and philosophy---all woven together to create the rules by which we live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.---who grew up in the shadow of his famous father, the great doctor and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.---set out to make his mark on the world. His first notoriety among the legal community came when he edited the monumental work of legal scholarship Kent's Commentaries. Just shy of his fortieth birthday, he delivered The Common Law to very positive reviews. From that point, his career was meteoric and included a near three-decade tenure on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Su questo libro

Product Description:

Book by Holmes Jr Oliver

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Barnes & Noble
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0760754985
• ISBN 13: 9780760754986
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302