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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evolutionary Common Law; Ch01. Holmes's Dissents and Emersonian Superfluity; Ch02. The Poetics of Transition and Vindicated Dissents; Ch03. Canon Formation and the Marketplace of Ideas; Ch04. Holmes and the Differential Reproduction of Emersonian Ideas in a Transitional Era; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The aesthetic style of his dissents reflects his theory of the common law that rejected depictions of fixed and unchanging rules in favor of an evolutionary view. |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935. |
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United States. Supreme Court.
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United States. Supreme Court. |
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United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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États-Unis. Supreme Court. |
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États-Unis. Supreme Court -- Fonctionnaires -- Biographies. |
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Dissenting opinions -- United States.
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Dissenting opinions. |
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United States. |
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Judges -- United States -- Biography.
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LAW -- Civil Procedure. |
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LAW -- Legal Services. |
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Judges. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch. |
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Employees. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mendenhall, Allen, 1983- author. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., pragmatism, and the jurisprudence of Agon Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2016 9781611487916 (DLC) 2016043389 |
| ISBN |
9781611487923 (electronic) |
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1611487927 |
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9781611487916 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1611487919 |
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