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8 Mar 2007, 8:15 am
Before ending up on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. spent a couple of months as a law professor, during which time, according to Harold Berman, he taught his students that, "Your business as lawyers is to see the relation between your particular fact and the whole frame of the universe. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
Those articles caused the Boston-based American Law Review, edited by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Arthur Sedgwick, to opine that the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) investigate and, if necessary, disbar Field.Field and his defenders responded to every criticism. [read post]
6 Aug 2011, 9:57 am by Lawrence Solum
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint by Frederic R. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 3:19 pm by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
Did you know that even Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. didn't understand a word he heard on his first day of law school? [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 8:06 am by Lyle Denniston
  He will thus become the second oldest Justice ever to have served (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sat until he was 90 and 10 months; he retired on January 12, 1932). [read post]
5 Jul 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
In so doing, he inspired generations of progressive jurists—among them Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Felix Frankfurter—to reshape American law to meet the demands of a new era. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 9:56 am by Joseph A. Ranney
Eastern jurists such as John Marshall, James Kent, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo have received the lion’s share of attention from law professors and historians over the years. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 8:39 am by Christine Corcos
Kang's "Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness" undertakes a particularly charged subject in light of the #MeToo Movement and accumulating accusations of "toxic masculinity. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
  A review of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky (Law.com). [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 2:45 pm by Christine Corcos
Kang's "Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness" undertakes a particularly charged subject in light of the #MeToo Movement and accumulating accusations of "toxic masculinity. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Here's the first paragraph:Every law student worth her salt has read, or at least heard of, Oliver Wendell Holmes and The Common Law.1 His formulation of the reasonable man (or, as we call it now, reasonable person) standard structures the foundation of the law school curriculum. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 2:45 pm
Kang's "Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness" undertakes a particularly charged subject in light of the #MeToo Movement and accumulating accusations of "toxic masculinity. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 8:39 am
Kang's "Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness" undertakes a particularly charged subject in light of the #MeToo Movement and accumulating accusations of "toxic masculinity. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 11:44 am by KB Beck
This scene of a house in winter is from an undated photograph in Historical & Special Collections’ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. collection. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Brandeis (1856-1941) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), Frankfurter goes on at length about the influence that his early mentor, Henry L. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
In the early twentieth century, Oliver Wendell Holmes and other critics of laissez-faire constitutionalism used the judiciary’s acceptance of evangelical moral values to demonstrate that conceptions of property rights and federalism were fluid, socially constructed, and subject to modification by democratic majorities. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 6:30 am by ernst
Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824–1898) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935): The Arc of American Tort TheoryJohn CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky3. [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
’s 1963 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 8:56 am by Ronald Collins
Budiansky: Thank you, Ron, and glad to have the opportunity to answer your questions about my new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 10:59 am by Peter (Pete) A. Steinmeyer
  In advising against the blind application of legal doctrines, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that “[i]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. [read post]