natural lawpragmatismSocial DarwinismOliver Wendell Holmes was an American jurist, justice of the US Supreme Court (1902–32), and a founder of "legal realism" – defining law as a strictly historical construct buffeted by politics, without grounding in natural law or impartial logic. Holmes led...
Holmes was a legal realist, as summed up in his maxim, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience", and a moral skeptic opposed to the doctrine of natural law. His jurisprudence and academic writing influenced much subsequent American legal thinking, including the ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Natural Law Enthusiasm and Zeal Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum—but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Freedom of Speech ...
HOLMES was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809, and died October 7, 1894. At the age of twenty he graduated at Harvard University, then took up the study of law. This study, however, was soon abandoned for medicine. He studied in Europe for a short time, and took his d...
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM O. W. HOLMES, SR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Editor's NoteThis is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name who was aSupreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr.Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine.Thoug...
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Takings, Regulations, and Natural Property Rights the whole notion of a "regulatory taking" was a contradiction in terms until Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes invented it in the 1922 Supreme Court decision... ER Claeys - 《Cornell Law Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2003年 加载更多站...
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” –Oliver ...
SUN-PAINTING AND SUN-SCULPTURE: With A stereoscopic trip across the Atlantic. by Oliver Wendell Holmes There is one old fable which Lord Bacon, in his “Wisdom of the Ancients,” has not interpreted. This is the flaying of Marsyas by Apollo. Everybody remembers the accepted version of it,...
Holmes utilized the legal theory of progressivism in his interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and he rejected the idea that morality, natural law and natural rights should play a role in judi...