Homework

Part 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes on The Common Law

In his classic book "The Common Law" (published in 1881), the great legal thinker Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (pictured below, bottom left) famously wrote: “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” What do you think Holmes meant by this? (250 words)

Part 2. Should Contracts Between Humans and Vampires Be Illegal?

For purposes of this assignment, assume vampires are real!

Should agreements between humans and vampires for the purchase and sale of blood should be legal or illegal? Explain. (250 words)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2332596

https://priorprobability.com/2014/11/30/vampire-freakonomics-3/