O.W. Holmes and his “ The Path of the Law”

Authors

  • Jarmila Chovancová Faculty of Law, University of Commenianae, Bratislava, Slovakia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14595/PES/03/003

Abstract

The article describes understanding of law and morality, its connection by O.W. Holmes and also analyzes their content. O. W. Holmes speaks about qualified lawyer and about his credits. What credits do we actually encounter? According to Holmes, only a qualified lawyer can adequately meet the standards of legal profession. There were some perils connected with the American law which according to Holmes should have been avoided or recognized.

            In the USA, the sources of law are frequently represented by legal customs, case law, and other sources which are frequently several hundred years old.

Also primary rights and duties created  in the deep past throught judicial decisions and enshrined in precedents were considered prophecies by Holmes.

Methodology: In the article I using especially method of synthesis in defiing the concept of law and also qualified lawyer by O. W. Holmes.

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Published

2016-07-07

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No. 3 (2016): Progress in Economic Sciences

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