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Jurisprudence

viewing law from the position of someone who cares only about what courts will do to him, so law is a prediction of official action.

In jurisprudence, bad man theory refers to viewing law from the position of someone who cares only about what courts will do to him, so law is a prediction of official action. This meaning comes from Holmes (1897) in Harvard Law Review.[1]

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References

Holmes, O. W. (1897). The Path of the Law. Harvard Law Review, 10(8), 457. https://doi.org/10.2307/1322028

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