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Justice Holmes And The Common-Law Tradition, John C.H. Wu
Justice Holmes And The Common-Law Tradition, John C.H. Wu
Vanderbilt Law Review
Briefly, case law may be described as "a method of developing law which preserves the continuity of legal doctrine, and is, at the same time, eminently adaptable to the needs of a changing society." On the whole, it is not far from the truth to say that "it hits the golden mean between too much flexibility and too much rigidity .... -" But what makes it so matter-of-fact and racy of the soil is to be found in Holdsworth's further observation that "this method keeps the law in touch with life, and prevents much unprofitable speculation upon academic problems which …