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The path of E-law: liberty, property, and democracy from the colonies to the Republic of Cyberia.

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From: Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal
Date: 19980322
Author:Schweiger, Barbara Spillman

INTRODUCTION

One century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., then an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, announced to the legal community that "[w]e are only at the beginning of a philosophical reaction, and of a reconsideration of the worth of doctrines which for the most part still are taken for granted without any deliberate, conscious, and systematic questioning of their grounds."(1) At the time Holmes penned those words, he was more than a half-century old and had witnessed the electrification of the American landscape; the explosive growth ...