Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Jurist
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- School
- American Legal Realism
- Father of
- American Legal Realism (precursor)
- Theory
- American Legal Realism; "Bad Man" theory — law is what the courts will do in fact; prediction theory; "the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
- Quote
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
- Books
The Common Law (1881), The Path of the Law (1897)
- Propounded
Bad-Man theory; Prediction theory - law is what the courts will do in fact
- Born
- 1841
- Died
- 1935
- Portrait
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