Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education [Hardcover]

This book argues for a three-dimensional view of law and restates the message of Holmes's 'The Path of the Law' for legal educators of today.Stereoscopic Law contends that the most famous article in American jurisprudence - Oliver Wendell Holmes's 'The Path of the Law' - is an essay on legal education. This book meticulously and uniquely develops this thesis through the lenses of history and philosophy and restates Holmes's main message to fit contemporary pedagogical challenges.Stereoscopic Law contends that the most famous article in American jurisprudence - Oliver Wendell Holmes's 'The Path of the Law' - is an essay on legal education. This book meticulously and uniquely develops this thesis through the lenses of history and philosophy and restates Holmes's main message to fit contemporary pedagogical challenges.In this unique book, Alexander Lian, a practicing commercial litigator, advances the thesis that the most famous article in American jurisprudence, Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Path of the Law, presents Holmes's leading ideas on legal education. Through meticulous analysis, Lian explores Holmes's fundamental ideas on law and its study. He puts The Path of the Law within the trajectory of Holmes's jurisprudence, from earliest scholarship to The Common Law to the occasional pieces Holmes wrote or delivered after joining the U.S. Supreme Court. Lian takes a close look at the reactions The Path of the Law has evoked, both positive and negative, and restates the essay's core teachings for today's legal educators. Lian convincingly shows that Holmes's theory of legal study broke down artificial barriers between theory and practice. For contemporary legal educators, Stereoscopic Law reformulates Holmes's fundamental message that the law must been seen and taught three-dimensionally.Introduction: Part I. Law and the Legal Profession; Part II. The Inner Path of the Common Law; Part III. The Purely Legal Point of View; Part IV. Thirteen Ways of Looking at thlóP