The Mirror of Justice
Subtitle: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691114705
Subjects: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Literary studies: general; Politics/International Relations; Literary Criticism; Politics / Current Events; General; Comparative Literature; Law; Law / Legal History; Political Science and International Relations; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
First sentence: The Common Law (1881) Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."