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Judge Learned Hand once said to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Do justice, sir, do justice!" Holmes replied, "That is not my job. My job is to apply the law." The judiciary is not in the business of making the laws. That duty is reserved to the legislative branch. Extremists who...
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that the "life of religion is not the logic of theology but the rending of human experience." We can apply the formalistic aspects of theological study to the moral dimensions accountable to the societies in which they function and thrive. We can apply our findings to...
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In delivering the Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture before an audience of 50 in Austin Hall, Winter, a professor at Yale Law School, said current decisions in American corporate and securities law are increasing the cost of capital.
Some Canadian-policy intellectuals have discussed the prospect of violence. Canadians shouldn't worry about that either: they aren't Serbs and Croats. In a way, that may be part of their problem. "Every society," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "rests on the death of men." Canadians fought bravely in Britain...