Law as Logic and Experience

Download or read book Law as Logic and Experience written by Max Radin and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radin, Max. Law as Logic and Experience. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. ix, [1], 171 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-30670. ISBN 1-58477-008-2. Cloth. $55. * "Although this volume does not purport to be a serious contribution to legal science or to legal philosophy, it is full of the mellow wisdom, the gracious erudition, the provoking phrase, and the human sympathy that make almost anything that Max Radin says or writes worth pondering. It presents a series of lectures on two texts: the dictum of Coke, J. 'Reason is the life of the law,' and the dissenting opinion of Holmes, J., 'The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.'" Felix S. Cohen, Harvard Law Review 54:711. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 924.