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Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes

hardcover – December 1, 2000
by Alschuler, Albert W.
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ISBN-13: 9780226015200 ISBN-10: 0226015203
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
December 1, 2000
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
2.50×16.10×23.70 cm

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Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes by Alschuler, Albert W.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226015200.

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 Alschulers 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."