Frederic R. Kellogg

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes's intellectual path from his early writings through his judicial career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780521866507
• ISBN-10: 0521866502
• Artikelnr.: 22749980

Autorenporträt

Frederic R. Kellogg is a scholar of jurisprudence and has been Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the George Washington University, Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Warsaw, and Visiting Professor at Moscow State University. He is the author of The Formative Essays of Justice Holmes: The Making of an American Legal Philosophy, as well as numerous articles on legal philosophy and jurisprudence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A time for law
2. Playing king
3. Holmes's conception of law
4. Common law theory revisited
5. Holmes and legal classification
6. The general theory of liability (and its critics)
7. Morals and skepticism in law
8. Judges, principles, and policy
9. Common law constitutionalism
10. Holmes's theory in retrospect.