Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
ISSN
1092-5880
Publisher
Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), twenty-fifth Chief Justice of Massachusetts, needs no introduction to the readers of this journal. Son and namesake of one of America's most popular writers, he was at twenty-four a Civil War hero wounded three times in battle, and at forty a lawyer-scholar whose book of lectures The Common Law would win him international renown. At sixtyone he began three decades as the Great Dissenter on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he exposed the economic theory underpinning the dominant freedom-of-contract ideology. Between 1882 and 1902-between early promise and later fame-he served on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Recommended Citation
David J. Seipp,
Chief Justice Holmes on the Science and Art (and Politics) of Judging
,
in
5
Massachusetts Legal History
19
(1999).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1569
