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Legal Biography

Holmes (Oliver Wendell)

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Holmes' Failure, Louise Weinberg Dec 1997

Holmes' Failure, Louise Weinberg

Michigan Law Review

I have just set down the March 1997 Harvard Law Review, with its centennial celebration of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Path of the Law. The Path of the Law is a grand thing, in my view Holmes' best thing. But just the same, I find myself surprised that on this occasion none of its celebrants raised what has always seemed to me a weakness of the piece, and of Holmes' much earlier book, The Common Law. This is a weakness that is at once a reflection and a forecast of the failure of its author. Writers today do seem to …


Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law And The Inner Self, Michael A. Carrier May 1995

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law And The Inner Self, Michael A. Carrier

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White


The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life And Times Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles A. Bieneman May 1992

The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life And Times Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles A. Bieneman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Liva Baker