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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: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes

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In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/04/2002
    ISBN13: 9780226015217, 978-0226015217
    ISBN10: 0226015211

    Number of Pages: 336

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    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."

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