The Path of the Law and Its Influence

Brings together distinguished legal scholars to examine a seminal work in American legal theory.

Klappentext
Brings together distinguished legal scholars to examine a seminal work in American legal theory.

Zusammenfassung
Brings together some of the most distinguished legal scholars from the United States and Canada to examine competing understandings of The Path of the Law, a seminal work in American legal theory, and its implications for contemporary American jurisprudence.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction Steven J. Burton; 1. Law as a vocation: Holmes and the lawyer's path Robert W. Gordon; 2. The bad man and the good lawyer David Luban; 3. Why practice needs ethical theory: particularism, principle and bad behaviour Martha C. 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 Catherine Peirce Wells; 10. Emerson and Holmes: serene skeptics 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; Appendix: the path of the law (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.); Index.

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