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Bad Man from Olympus
Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that law should be conceived as a means to the attainment of human ends, and that judges should admit that they decide debatable cases on the basis of policy, not of precedent or abstract principle.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self
by G. Edward White
The Collected Works of Justice Holmes: Complete Public Writings and Selected Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes
edited by Sheldon M. Novick
The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
edited and with an introduction by Richard A. Posner
July 13, 1995 issue
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