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11 Aug 2015, 3:19 pm
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]
28 Jun 2015, 1:12 pm
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "It's dangerous to think about legal issues can be worked out like mathematics. [read post]
28 May 2015, 2:29 pm
For polygraph evidence, courts have used the error rate factor to obscure their policy prejudices against polygraphs, and to exclude test data even when the error rate is known, and rather low compared to what passes for expert witness opinion testimony in many other fields[2]. [read post]
19 May 2015, 1:44 pm
Nearly 100 years ago Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., voting to uphold the Espionage Act conviction of a man who wrote and circulated anti-draft pamphlets during World War I, said"[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 9:56 am
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]
9 Apr 2015, 4:23 am
Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “Bad Man” theory of how you set up the law. [read post]
14 Mar 2015, 12:08 pm
While the Eddie Albert character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a "gentleman" with a love of farming itself, it seems a new crop of "gentlemen farmers" have found some serious tax benefits attending the hobby. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:24 am
3-29; 185-215__________THE COMMON LAWBy Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 7:44 am
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform & the Constitution by Robert C. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:03 am
“For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. [read post]
5 May 2014, 11:18 am
Fields, 18 F. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 6:35 am
His nominees were John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and William Rehnquist. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm
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]
14 Feb 2014, 9:35 am
” Question: You note that apart from Justice Antonin Scalia, none of the current Justices typically writes the first draft of his or her opinion – unlike, say, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in past times or Judge Richard Posner today. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 11:27 pm
-John Marshall Harlan: his dissent in Plessy itself might give him this honor -Oliver Wendell Holmes: the "Great Dissenter" -Hugo Black: one of the greatest "textualists" -Louis Brandeis: formed today's understanding of the "right to privacy" -Sandra Day O'Connor: pioneer as the first female Justice, and was the "swing" vote on the U.S. [read post]
29 May 2013, 3:18 pm
In my last two posts about my new book, Law’s History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History, I focused on the original scholarship on the history of English law by five late nineteenth-century Americans: Henry Adams, Melville Bigelow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., James Barr Ames, and James Bradley Thayer. [read post]
10 May 2013, 12:18 pm
But other Americans did, most prominently Melville Madison Bigelow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., James Barr Ames, and James Bradley Thayer, who all lived in the Boston area and knew each other well. [read post]
7 May 2013, 12:26 am
But then, this development has taken its time over there as well: “For the rational study of the law the black letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and of economics” - Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1897. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 9:00 am
They include Henry Adams, John Norton Pomeroy, James Bradley Thayer, Melville Madison Bigelow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., James Coolidge Carter, Thomas Cooley, Christopher Tiedeman, and Roscoe Pound.Here are some of the blurbs:"This is a pioneering study of American historical jurisprudence in the late nineteenth century. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:29 am
Williston’s philosophy dovetailed with that of the eminent jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Corbin’s resonated with that of the esteemed judge, Benjamin N. [read post]
