The Common Law (The John Harvard Library)

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Common Law" is considered the greatest treatise on the law ever written by an American. As Editor Mark Howe explains, it is not merely a work of legal history but also a profound philosophical work that argued on behalf of a pragmatic Anglo-American theory of law (that focussed on sanctioning an individual for the injury done to common good) against a romantic Kantian and Hegelian outlook (that introduced subjective considerations of the morality and virtue of the accused and victim). 338 pages with index.