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8 May 2009, 8:16 am
Connecting to the ideas of the American legal realists Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Felix Cohen, the talk uses examples from Contract Law (assent to terms in electronic contracting cases, waiver of the failure of conditions), Medical Decision-Making (deciding on behalf of incompetent patients), and Family Law (same-sex marriage, child custody, and alimony) to make general points about how we choose words to make our decisions more persuasive or more comfortable, when we should instead be… [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 4:09 am by Walter Olson
Chamber ILR] “I’ll Never File Another Asbestos Case in Texas” [Oliver] Financial whistleblowing rules a potential “gold mine”? [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 6:09 am by John Kang
In the next couple of weeks I plan to blog about manliness in the context of law and politics, beginning with my recent book about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. [read post]
25 May 2009, 10:28 pm
Connecting to the ideas of the American legal realists Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Felix Cohen, the talk uses examples from Contract Law (assent to terms in electronic contracting cases, waiver of the failure of conditions), Medical Decision-Making (deciding on behalf of incompetent patients), and Family Law (same-sex marriage, child custody, and alimony) to make general points about how we choose words to make our decisions more persuasive or more comfortable, when we should instead be… [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 9:30 pm
The tale continues after the Civil War with Justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who clashed over the limits of majority rule. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 2:17 pm by Frank Pasquale
“We’ve always been a plantation state,” said Oliver Houck, an environmental law professor at Tulane University. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 2:56 am
A federal jury decided Friday that William Hudson, Justin Jordan and Oliver Brown were kicked out of the university and arrested as payback for criticizing Priscilla Slade, university president at the time, and other school leaders. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 8:02 pm by mpearse@law.harvard.edu
  On display through October 8 in the Caspersen Room (the exhibition hall at the north end of the Langdell fourth floor reading room) are: the earliest printed textbook on English land law, Littleton’s Tenures, 1482 the first English and American editions of Blackstone’s Commentaries (perhaps the most famous book in Anglo-American law) the author’s own copy of the very first casebook in legal education, Langdell’s Cases on Contracts, 1871 the author’s own copy of… [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 6:47 am
It was forced to ask the Bank of England for emergency funding, triggering the first run on a British bank in more than a century.After months of talks with potential bidders, including a consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, private-equity group Olivant Advisers Ltd, and a management buyout, the UK Government has decided that nationalisation – the first such move since the 1970s – is the only option. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 3:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Around the same time, the president of Serbia issued a nonapology apology for the massacre, neglecting to call it genocide and using language so vague it seemed more insult than olive branch. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 4:12 pm
Or, say, Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Marshall. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 7:39 am by Timothy B. Lee
Enlarge (credit: Oliver Mallich) Bitcoin fell below the psychologically significant level of $10,000 on Wednesday morning, marking a second day of double-digit declines for the virtual currency. [read post]
7 May 2018, 2:38 pm by JD Hull
At our shop, only the patrician Holden Oliver, with his first rate 13th century mind, got all the answers right. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita; and Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value (discussed on the Forum here) by Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 9:55 pm by Staycie R. Sena
One of the horses being transported, an 800-pound Appaloosa named Oliver, was flung around the inside of the trailer with force during the accident and he became free of his safety harness allowing him to exit the trailer. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 4:14 am by Lawrence Solum
The structure of my argument is borrowed from a much older exchange between Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who thought that contract law imposed a duty to perform or pay damages and Frederick Pollock, who denied that that the payment of damages was part of the duty to keep a contract. [read post]