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 ...

One of the greatest giants in all American jurisprudence was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who sat on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years, from 1902 to ...

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 ...

Jesse Walker's recent post about pundits quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in defense of their own calls to censor the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims brought to mind a question I've long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, [Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas], in which he recounted the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who served on the ...

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 ...

One of my favorite stories about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is from one of his train trips to Washington. Holmes forgot his ticket but the train conductor reassured him, “Do not ...

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 ...