Distinguished for his learning, judgment, humor, and eloquence, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) served as justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for four decades. This compilation of 26 of his legal papers and addresses touches upon many spheres of public concern and reflects the ongoing development of a democratic society.
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. . . Collected Legal Essays is a good vertical section of the mind of that judge who beyond any other of his generation has impressed his ideas on the structure and
course of the law. --Learned Hand --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
course of the law. --Learned Hand --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935] served as an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. One of the most widely cited
Justices in the Court s history, he was known as The Great Dissenter because of the
brilliant legal reasoning found in his dissenting opinions in such cases as Lochner
v. New York. As a young man he attended Harvard College, served in the Civil War
in the Harvard Regiment and was seriously wounded. After the war he attended,
and later taught at Harvard Law School. Appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts in 1882, he became its Chief Justice in 1899. Well known for the legal
philosophy espoused here and in The Common Law, Holmes proposed that the law
was not a science founded on abstract universal principles but a body of practices
that responded to particular situations. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. One of the most widely cited
Justices in the Court s history, he was known as The Great Dissenter because of the
brilliant legal reasoning found in his dissenting opinions in such cases as Lochner
v. New York. As a young man he attended Harvard College, served in the Civil War
in the Harvard Regiment and was seriously wounded. After the war he attended,
and later taught at Harvard Law School. Appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts in 1882, he became its Chief Justice in 1899. Well known for the legal
philosophy espoused here and in The Common Law, Holmes proposed that the law
was not a science founded on abstract universal principles but a body of practices
that responded to particular situations. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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