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The Common Law
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Narrator
- Robert Morris
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 August 2012
- Run Time
- 12 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.
In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.
Critics Review
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“This book is a classic in the sense that its stock of ideas has been absorbed and become a part of common juristic thought…They placed law in a perspective which legal scholarship ever since has merely confirmed.”
Felix Frankfurter, New York Times bestselling author of Of Law and Men
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“This famous book…resembles a necklace of splendid diamonds…[Holmes’] learning is always gracefully deployed and never degenerates into pedantry…It is amazing that so much could have been amassed by a man of thirty.”
New York Review of Books
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“A landmark in intellectual history.”
Mark DeWolfe Howe
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Details
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Narrator
- Robert Morris
- Duration
- 12 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 August 2012
- ISBN
- 9781483054131
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Systems of law: common law, Constitution, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Jurisprudence and general issues, Legal history, Reference works, Politics and government
Synopsis
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.
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