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A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, PDF eBook

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes PDF

Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures series

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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts.

Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country to seriously consider returning to a traditional American judicial–legislative balance in which courts enlarge the common law and decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.

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