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Article: The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
- Author:
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been "regarded as a great progressive, a liberal, a harsh totalitarian, a positivist, an early realist, an eternal soldier, and lately as a utilitarian and pragmatist. Some have found his ideas hopelessly contradictory; others have chimed to have detected the key that unlocks all mystery" (74). The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., consists of an introduction by the editor and seven essays by British, American, and Canadian scholars. It is divided largely into two parts: dissections of the intellectual background, the evolution, and the content of Holmes' legal thought and the Massachusetts and United States Supreme Court justice's place ...
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