The Hidden Holmes : : His Theory of Torts in History / / David Rosenberg.
This bold book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes is the acknowledged source of twentieth-century tort law, but David Rosenberg takes sharp issue with the current portrayal of Holmes as a legal formalist in torts who opposed the notion of stric...
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Rosenberg, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Hidden Holmes : His Theory of Torts in History / David Rosenberg. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1995 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Formalist Legal Science -- 2. The New Jurisprudence -- 3. The Common Ground of Liability -- 4. General Theory of Torts Part One -- 5. General Theory of Torts Part Two -- 6. Holmes in History -- Abbreviations -- Principal Works -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This bold book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes is the acknowledged source of twentieth-century tort law, but David Rosenberg takes sharp issue with the current portrayal of Holmes as a legal formalist in torts who opposed the notion of strict liability and dogmatically advocated a universal rule of negligence, primarily to subsidize industrial development. Marshaling the evidence found in Holmes' classic The Common Law and other writings, the author reveals that the opposite was the case, and, in the process, raises troubling questions about the present state of legal scholarship. It was Holmes who founded the modern conception and justification of strict liability. He envisioned an expansive role for strict liability to augment the negligence rule in preventing and redressing injury from industrial activity. This recovery of Holmes' theory of torts provides new insights into the nature of the jurisprudence that launched the American legal realist movement, and also overturns standard interpretations of the history of tort law. Rejecting the prevailing view that either strict liability or negligence reigned exclusively, Holmes and his contemporaries reconciled the existence of both rules, and advocated reforms of tort law to protect society from the unprecedented hazards of industrial life. The parallel drawn by the book between their response and ours in grappling with the novel problem of mass torts confirms Holmes' belief in the adaptive genius of the common law. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Onrechtmatige daad. Recht. Rechtsontwikkeling. Rechtstheorie. Risicoaansprakelijkheid. Strict liability United States History. Strict liability. Torts United States History. Torts. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935 -- Contributions in torts. LAW / Legal History. LAW / Torts. Strict liability -- United States -- History. Torts -- United States -- History. LAW / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Law & Political Science eBook Package 9783110353495 ZDB-23-HLP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674418486 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418493 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674418493 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674418493.jpg |
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