Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (New)

Stereoscopic LawOliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education\nAuthor(s): Alexander Lian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108474740, 978-1108474740\nSynopsis\nIn 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 [url] 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 Holme.