The Fundamental Holmes

The Fundamental Holmes
Author: Ronald K. L. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2010-07-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139788558

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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.

The Fundamental Holmes

The Fundamental Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2010-07-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521143896

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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.

The Fundamental Holmes

The Fundamental Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: LAW
ISBN: 9781139775670

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"This is the first anthology of Oliver Wendell Holmes's writings, speeches, and opinions concerning freedom of expression"--Provided by publisher.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Author: Stephen Budiansky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393634736

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“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.

Law Without Values

Law Without Values
Author: Albert W. Alschuler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226015217

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Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him.

The Great Dissent

The Great Dissent
Author: Thomas Healy
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805094563

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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.

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
Author: Anthony Lewis
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1458758389

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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.

The Common Law

The Common Law
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1923
Genre: Common law
ISBN:

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Stereoscopic Law

Stereoscopic Law
Author: Alexander Lian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108600689

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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.

The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes

The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1946
Genre: Constitutional law
ISBN: 1412837820

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