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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi

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Date of Birth:
June 26, 1911
Date of Death:
March 7, 2000
Nationality:
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