Public Scholars at
Hanover College
Path to the Law
March 12, 13, 2007
on Campus
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In 1897, Oliver Wendell Holmes published an article entitled 'The Path of the Law.' In this essay Holmes famously helped lay the foundations of twentieth century American legal thought, arguing that law is created by judges and reflects the realities of power in society. In this symposium we will explore the issues raised by Holmes, exploring what law is or ought to be, and what we should expect from the legal profession. |
PDF
of Oliver Wendell Holmes Essay: Path of the Law
A copy of this
essay is on reserve in Duggan Library.
Schedule of Events:
Monday, March 12
4:00 pm - "Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Downward Path of the
Law" - Albert Alschuler *Class of '65 Lectureship Series Speaker
- Classic 102
Tuesday - March 13
10:00 am. Roundtable Discussion - CC Faculty Dining Room
4:00 pm. - "Visible Tugs and Unseen Shoves: Strolling Down the Path
of the Law" - Ronald Smith - Classic 102
Featured Speakers:
Albert Alschuler graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and was case editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has been a law clerk to Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court; a special assistant to the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division of the U.S. Justice Department; a professor of law at the University of Texas, the University of Colorado, and the University of Pennsylvania; a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the Brooklyn Law School, and Columbia University; and a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Justice and the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Alschuler has written on plea bargaining, sentencing reform, privacy, search and seizure, civil procedure, jury selection, legal history, legal ethics, confessions, courtroom conduct, William Blackstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, American legal theory, and other topics, most of them in the area of criminal justice. *Class of '65 Lectureship Series Speaker.
Ronald Smith earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University where he was affiliated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Public Policy. He joined the Hanover College faculty in 2003 where he is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research interests focus on the nature of citizen participation in community, in politics, and in the law.
*Established by the Class of 1965 as a senior class gift, the Class of '65 Lectureship Fund is an endowed fund used to support bringing nationally known speakers to campus.
