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Thomas C. Grey

Bad Man from Olympus

Bad Man from Olympus

Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that law should be conceived as a means to the attainment of human ends, and that judges should admit that they decide debatable cases on the basis of policy, not of precedent or abstract principle.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self

by G. Edward White

The Collected Works of Justice Holmes: Complete Public Writings and Selected Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes

edited by Sheldon M. Novick

The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

edited and with an introduction by Richard A. Posner

July 13, 1995 issue

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Sheldon M. Novick

The Complete Holmes

September 21, 1995 issue

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