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

by Albert W. Alschuler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226015203
• ISBN13: 9780226015200
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"