...for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent...History- must be a part of the study, because without II we'cannot know the precise scope of rules which it is our business to know. It is a part of the...

...address on " The Path of the Law," delivered in 1897. " The rational study of law," he H/ declares, "is still to a large extent the study of history....of the rational study, because it is the first step towards an enlightened scepticism, that is, towards a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of those...

...is therefore restricted to contemporary events. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) put it: "History must be a part of the study, because without it we cannot know the precise scope of rules that it is our business to know. . . . For the rational study of the»law the blackletter man may be...

...was demystification and therapy; Holmes described it as luring out and killing (or taming) a dragon. "The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history . . . because it is the first step towards a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of [its] rules."36...

...for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent...because it is the first step toward an enlightened scepticism, that is, toward a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of those rules. When you get...

...for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent...because it is the first step toward an enlightened scepticism, that is, toward a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of those rules. When you get...

...for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent...because it is the first step toward an enlightened scepticism, that is, toward a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of those rules. When you get...

...contexts; see also Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 HARV. L. REV. 457 (1897), where he states "The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history." id.; HL POHLMAN, JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND UTILITARIAN JURISPRUDENCE (1984). Another 110 Naturalists,...

...common law, which gave it an independent moral standing, as if it were natural law. Holmes thought that "[t]he rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. . . . History must be part of the study, because without it we cannot know the precise scope of the rules which it is our...

...for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent...because it is the first step toward an enlightened scepticism, that is, toward a deliberate reconsideration of the worth of those rules. When you get...