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14 May 2009, 8:11 am
Yes, Justice Holmes was onto something important when he observed that law is largely written for the "bad man". [read post]
13 May 2009, 11:52 am
., scholars or judges) like Story, Holmes, Cardozo, Brandeis, Scalia, Joseph Bradley, Samuel Miller, or Harlan the Younger. [read post]
13 May 2009, 11:17 am
(I’d say Marshall, Holmes, Jackson, Scalia, and Black.) [read post]
11 May 2009, 7:45 pm
(The program book included a touching story about how she met the composer while a music student making ends meet by singing in a church choir that happened to be directed by Rorem's domestic partner, Jim Holmes.) [read post]
10 May 2009, 7:09 pm
Sandford 1859 John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. 1864 Geneva Convention 1881 Holmes, The Common Law 1900 Burgerliches Gezetzbuch 1919 The Covenant of the League of Nations 1921 Permanent Court of International Justice 1931 Statute of Westminster 1945 Nuremburg Indictments 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights is here 1957 Treaty of Rome 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (we were actually thinking of the Constitutional Court Certification of the Amended… [read post]
9 May 2009, 8:45 pm
Amended version of 1297 from the UK Statute Law Database and Original and translation version available at the British Library website 1274 Summa Theologica 1625 Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis 1690 Locke’s Two Treatises on Civil Government 1748 Montesquieu De l’esprit des lois 1772 Somersett v Stewart found that slavery was illegal in England (though not in the Empire) (1772) 20 State Tr 1; (1772) Lofft 1 1804 Napoleon’s Code civil 1864 Geneva Convention 1881… [read post]
8 May 2009, 8:03 pm
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was perhaps, by common measure, the best writer in the history of the court, was in retrospect a hugely unfortunate judge, famous for dismissing or eliding or oversimplifying dificult issues with a quip ("Three generations of idiots is enough" being, perhaps, the most quoted). [read post]
8 May 2009, 12:45 pm
START DATES, ORGANIZED BY DATE Ed. note: Some firms appear on multiple dates, as they've offered a mix of dates and deferral options 2009 * Covington & Burling - Any Monday after the bar exam * Irell & Manella - Any Monday after the bar exam, November at the latest * Munger, Tolles & Olson - Any Monday after the bar exam * Quinn Emanuel - Any Monday after the bar exam SEPTEMBER 2009 * Akin Gump - September 14, 2009 for some Houston associates * Allen & Overy … [read post]
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]
7 May 2009, 10:22 am
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Supreme Court justice and one of the most influential intellects in U.S. legal history, made clear in The Path of the Law that it is a fallacy to think judges can apply only logic to the law and that a keen sense of the social impact of one’s decisions is fundamental to sound judging (emphasis added): The fallacy to which I refer is the notion that the only force at work in the development of the law is logic. . . . [read post]
6 May 2009, 6:13 pm
Oliver Wendell Holmes One of the least attractive aspects of professional training in law is the tendency to equate smartness with judgment, and judgment with virtue. [read post]
6 May 2009, 11:24 am
In my view, the Holmes/Brandeis view of free speech eventually became law because Holmes and Brandeis were right. [read post]
6 May 2009, 2:40 am
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who praised the council's decision.But the emotional debate that took place yesterday at the Wilson Building suggests that the issue could be divisive in a city with a long history of racial tension in politics. [read post]
4 May 2009, 1:53 pm
Joel calls our attention to the fact that on this day in 1891, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. [read post]
1 May 2009, 11:23 am
District Judge Leon Holmes, the court said portions of Act 649 of 2003, also known as the Civil Justice Reform... [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 9:10 pm
As such, we are unable to find that Tran's search of Neely's vehicle was justified under Holmes. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 8:53 pm
Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes told a press conference in New York, following his two-day visit to Sri Lanka, that “both sides are pursuing their military logics, if I can put it that way. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 3:42 pm
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the oldest justice to serve when he gave up the bench at the tender age of 90. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 2:50 am
They're hookers working for the RIAA.And they'll (try to) justify the evil they do to people such as Michigan student Brittany Kruger by saying they're lawyers so it's OK: that it's their duty to do whatever they can to help their clients, the unprincipled representatives of a corporate street gang called the Big 4.Why do I mention Brittany in particular out of the 40,000 innocent people, including very young children, across America who are being harried and harassed by… [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 8:16 pm
She now works for the Denver-based law firm Holme Roberts & Owen LLP. [read post]
