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Book The Fundamental Holmes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald K. L. Collins
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-19
  • ISBN : 1139788558
  • Pages : 793 pages

Download or read book The Fundamental Holmes written by Ronald K. L. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No figure stands taller in the world of First Amendment law than Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This is the first anthology of Justice Holmes's writings, speeches and opinions concerning freedom of expression. The book contains eight original essays designed to situate Holmes's works in historical and biographical context. The volume is enriched by extensive commentaries concerning its many entries, which consist of letters, speeches, book excerpts, articles, state court opinions and U.S. Supreme Court opinions. The edited materials – spanning Holmes's 1861–1864 service in the Civil War to his 1931 radio address to the nation – offer a unique view of the thoughts of the father of the modern First Amendment. The book's epilogue, which includes a major discovery about Holmes's impact on American statutory law, explores Holmes's free speech legacy. In the process, the reader comes to know Holmes and his jurisprudence of free speech as never before.

Book The Fundamental Holmes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-19
  • ISBN : 0521143896
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book The Fundamental Holmes written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology of Oliver Wendell Holmes's writings, speeches, and opinions concerning freedom of expression. Prepared by a noted free speech scholar, the book contains eight original essays designed to situate Holmes's works in historical and biographical context. The volume is enriched by extensive commentaries concerning its many entries, which consist of letters, speeches, book excerpts, articles, state court opinions, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

Book Oliver Wendell Holmes  A Life in War  Law  and Ideas

Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes A Life in War Law and Ideas written by Stephen Budiansky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” —Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms. As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law. As an enthusiastic friend, he wrote thousands of letters brimming with an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure.

Book Law Without Values

Download or read book Law Without Values written by Albert W. Alschuler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him.

Book The Fundamentals of Holmes  Juristic Philosophy

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Holmes Juristic Philosophy written by John Cuthbert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Dissent

Download or read book The Great Dissent written by Thomas Healy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero.

Book The Fundamental Holmes

Download or read book The Fundamental Holmes written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first anthology of Oliver Wendell Holmes's writings, speeches, and opinions concerning freedom of expression"--Provided by publisher.

Book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Download or read book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate written by Anthony Lewis and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.InFreedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis describes how our free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas—political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial speech, and unusual forms of expression such as T-shirts and campaign spending. It is a story of hard choices, heroic judges, and the fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face to face with one of America’s great founding ideas.

Book Oliver Wendell Holmes  Jr   Legal Theory  and Judicial Restraint

Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Legal Theory and Judicial Restraint written by Frederic R. Kellogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, is considered by many to be the most influential American jurist. The voluminous literature devoted to his writings and legal thought, however, is diverse and inconsistent. In this study, Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes's intellectual path from his early writings through his judicial career. He offers a fresh perspective that addresses the views of Holmes's leading critics and explains his relevance to the controversy over judicial activism and restraint. Holmes is shown to be an original legal theorist who reconceived common law as a theory of social inquiry and who applied his insights to constitutional law. From his empirical and naturalist perspective on law, with its roots in American pragmatism, emerged Holmes's distinctive judicial and constitutional restraint. Kellogg distinguishes Holmes from analytical legal positivism and contrasts him with a range of thinkers.

Book The Common Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of an expansion of 12 lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston.

Book The Fundamentals of Holmes  Juristic Philosophy

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Holmes Juristic Philosophy written by John C. Ford (S.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stereoscopic Law

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  • Author : Alexander Lian
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-03
  • ISBN : 1108600689
  • Pages : 537 pages

Download or read book Stereoscopic Law written by Alexander Lian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique book, Alexander Lian, a practicing commercial litigator, advances the thesis that the most famous article in American jurisprudence, Oliver Wendell Holmes's “The Path of the Law,” presents Holmes's leading ideas on legal education. Through meticulous analysis, Lian explores Holmes's fundamental ideas on law and its study. He puts “The Path of the Law” within the trajectory of Holmes's jurisprudence, from earliest scholarship to The Common Law to the occasional pieces Holmes wrote or delivered after joining the U.S. Supreme Court. Lian takes a close look at the reactions “The Path of the Law” has evoked, both positive and negative, and restates the essay's core teachings for today's legal educators. Lian convincingly shows that Holmes's “theory of legal study” broke down artificial barriers between theory and practice. For contemporary legal educators, Stereoscopic Law reformulates Holmes's fundamental message that the law must been seen and taught three-dimensionally.

Book The Harm in Hate Speech

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeremy Waldron
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-08
  • ISBN : 0674069919
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Harm in Hate Speech written by Jeremy Waldron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech—except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. Causing offense—by depicting a religious leader as a terrorist in a newspaper cartoon, for example—is not the same as launching a libelous attack on a group’s dignity, according to Waldron, and it lies outside the reach of law. But defamation of a minority group, through hate speech, undermines a public good that can and should be protected: the basic assurance of inclusion in society for all members. A social environment polluted by anti-gay leaflets, Nazi banners, and burning crosses sends an implicit message to the targets of such hatred: your security is uncertain and you can expect to face humiliation and discrimination when you leave your home. Free-speech advocates boast of despising what racists say but defending to the death their right to say it. Waldron finds this emphasis on intellectual resilience misguided and points instead to the threat hate speech poses to the lives, dignity, and reputations of minority members. Finding support for his view among philosophers of the Enlightenment, Waldron asks us to move beyond knee-jerk American exceptionalism in our debates over the serious consequences of hateful speech.

Book The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes

Download or read book The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1946 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fundamentals of Holmes  Juristic Philosophy

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Holmes Juristic Philosophy written by John C. Ford and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Common Law

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  • Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
  • Publisher : Double 9 Books
  • Release : 2023-02
  • ISBN : 9789358718263
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Common Law" is an important work written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a prominent American jurist and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Published in 1881, the book revolutionized legal thinking and had a profound impact on the development of American jurisprudence. In the book, Holmes examines the fundamental principles and concepts that underlie the legal system, particularly the common law tradition. He explores topics such as legal reasoning, the evolution of legal doctrines, the role of judges in interpreting and applying the law, and the relationship between law and society. The author has mentioned prevailing legal theories and argues for a more pragmatic and realistic approach to law, emphasizing the importance of context, social consequences, and the evolution of societal norms.

Book Falling Upwards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Holmes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 0307908704
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)