OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A Life in ... Budiansky quotes Chief Justice Edward Douglass White’s comment to Holmes that “he didn’t know any man in the country who had so little reputation in ...

The reputation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who lived from 1841 to 1935, has fluctuated along with the political and constitutional battles of every generation since he was appointed to the ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of America's great jurists, first as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1899-1902) and then as associate justice of the United States Supreme ...

Yesterday, I criticized Judge Richard Posner’s harsh criticism of what I thought was an anodyne tribute to the late Justice Antonin Scalia by Justice Elena Kagan (FYI, the post has been updated ...

The retirement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has called forth from his colleagues praise so emphatic that comment upon it is superfluous. The final estimate of his legal achievements may safely ...

On May 8, James McPherson and G. Edward White joined moderator Brad Snyder for the second lecture in the Supreme Court Historical Society’s Leon Silverman Lecture series, hosted by Scott Harris, the ...

But Oliver Wendell Holmes will soon have his second on Oct. 30 at Arena Stage in Washington, ... and "Father Chief Justice" portrayed Edward Douglass White in a play by Louisiana State University.

When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in 1935, he left a large bequest to the U.S. government. Eventually Congress resolved to use his gift to fund “a history of the Supreme Court of the ...

Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York's Court of ... vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25 ...

The Supreme Court, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, ... Under the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and '60s, a version of “living constitutionalism” was ascendant.

The emergence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a dominant influence in the work of the Supreme Court began in 1905, just three years after his appointment to the high bench, in a dissenting ...