Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes.

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Date: 20010501
Author:Messitte, Peter J.

Law Without Values

Albert W. Alschuler The University of Chicago Press 5801 South Ellis Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637-1496 332pp., $30

Reviewed by Peter J. Messitte

If you haven't read a wide sampling of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinions and public writings, if you haven't read a good biography of the man, you probably should not start with Albert W. Alschuler's recent book on him, Law Without Values. Alschuler, Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, has undertaken a total deconstruction of someone who was called, by no ...

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