Aphorisms and Expressions
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By Lawrence B. Solum Introduction F.W. Maitland, the famous legal historian wrote, “Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.” (A Prologue to a History of English Law, 14 L. Qtrly Rev. 13 (1898)) Maitland…
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By Lawrence B. Solum Introduction “It takes a theory to beat a theory”–this is surely one of the top ten all-time comments uttered by law professors to one another in those ritual interactions that are called “faculty workshops” or “colloquia.” The first instance of the comment that I can find in the legal literature appears…