Albert W. Alschuler
Author of Law Without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
About the Author
Albert W. Alschuler is the Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His study of Sir William Blackstone received the 1997 Sutherland Prize of the American Society of Legal Historians
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Works by Albert W. Alschuler
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- Birthdate
- 1940
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Harvard Law School (LL.B.|1965)
Harvard College (A.B.|History|1962) - Occupations
- Professor of Law
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He is mostly idolized. He got some important things right (freedom of speech) but he also got some important things very wrong (eugenics, power and moral absolutes).
This books is best approached by serious students of the law or jurisprudence. While the author addresses his subject well he approaches it in a way that would probably best communicate to law students or lawyers. Since the information was originally used as lecture materials for college level classes this makes sense. There is still a niche out there for an easily read biography that makes some of these same points but with less focus on law and jurisprudence.… (more)