Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures

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.

For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Jeremy Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.

In this book, an expanded version of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard University in 1966, L. C. B. Gower first looks at some of the legacies of colonialism inherited by those nations of Tropical Africa which recently gained independence from Britain.

In this timely book, Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking “political correctness” in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified extremism, including violence and terrorism, often results from failure to tolerate dissenting views.