The Hidden Holmes
His Theory of Torts in History
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7692693M
- ISBN-139780674390027
- ISBN-100674390024
- OCLC Control Number32703724
- OCLC Control Numberhiddenholmeshist0000rose
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95024264
- LibraryThing3887972
- Goodreads2141482
Classifications
- LCCKF1250 .R67 1995
Description
This book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes is one of the founders of twentieth-century tort law, but David Rosenberg takes sharp issue with the current portrayal of Holmes as a legal formalist who opposed the notion of strict liability and dogmatically advocated a universal rule of negligence in order to favor industrial development. Marshaling the evidence found in Holmes's classic The Common Law and other writings, Rosenberg reveals that the opposite was the case, and, in the process, raises troubling questions about the current state of legal scholarship.
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