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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Description: A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Alexander Lian, a practicing commercial litigator, reconstructs Oliver Wendell Holmesâ as a pioneering legal pedagogue and sophisticated theoretician of law and the âreality of practiceâ. Lian advances the thesis that the most famous article in American jurisprudence, Oliver Wendell Holmes's âThe Path of the Law,â presents Holmes' perspective on legal education. Through meticulous analysis, Lian cogently shows that Holmesâ âtheory of legal studyâ broke down artificial barriers between theory and practice. For contemporary legal educatorsâand anyone interested in...