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The views of Charles William Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (whose images follow) aided the descendants of immigrants in keeping out new immigrants, as depicted in Joseph Keppler’s 1893 “Looking Backward,” from Puck. Puck, January 11, 1893
A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right to express one’s political views. But in 1919, it was Holmes who wrote a dissenting opinion that would become the canonical affirmation of free speech in the United States. Why did Holmes change his mind? That question has puzzled historians for almost a century.
The Justice Who Changed His Mind: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the Story behind Abrams v. United States; Thomas Healy; Journal of Supreme Court History; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume 39, Number 1, 2014; pp. 35-78; 10.1353/sch.2014.0024; Article
Sep 1, 2020 · The fifty-four pages devoted to Holmes's military service give readers a frighteningly immediate experience of the horrors of the Civil War and surprisingly fresh support to the well-known belief that Holmes's experience of war was responsible for so much of what he became. Similarly, the book offers an insightful discussion of Holmes's father ...
- William P LaPiana
- 2020
T he great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. penned a host of memorable aphorisms that summarize his legal philosophy: “The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience”; “The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law”; “The duty to keep a contract at common law means a prediction that you must pay damages ...
Nov 13, 2021 · Oliver Wendell Holmes is one of the most famous judges in American history. After years of hero worship, a more recent generation of scholarship on Holmes has painted in darker hues. A considerable literature portrays him as a cynic and a narcissist, an adherent of a harsh Darwinian worldview that regarded life as ultimately devoted to conflict.
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The Judge as Mentor: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and His Law Clerks. I. Scott Messinger*. I. INTRODUCTION. The pioneering legal realist Jerome Frank once characterized Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as "The Completely Adult Jurist."'. By this he meant that Holmes had progressed beyond the "childish" search for absolutes in the law to the ...
