num_pages: 337
description: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Common Law" is considered the greatest treatise on the law ever written by an American. As Editor Mark Howe explains, it is not merely a work of legal history but also a profound philosophical work that argued on behalf of a pragmatic Anglo-American theory of law (that focussed on sanctioning an individual for the injury done to common good) against a romantic Kantian and Hegelian outlook (that introduced subjective considerations of the morality and virtue of the accused and victim). 338 pages with index.
language: English
title: The Common Law
titlecomplete: The Common Law (The John Harvard Library)
genres: Politics, Academic, Philosophy, Law, Nonfiction, Classics, American History, 19th Century, History
ratings_count: 488
publisher: Belknap Press