Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American Legal ThoughtOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a member of Boston s elite, a thrice-wounded Union soldier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a professor of law, a celebrated legal scholar, and a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He is best remembered, however, as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held for thirty years, from 1902 to 1932. |
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Serving in the Civil War | 21 |
A Young Lawyer and The Common Law | 32 |
Becoming a Judge | 39 |
An Appointment to the United States Supreme Court | 51 |
Fundamental Principles | 62 |
Congress and Child Labor | 70 |
Free Speech and the First Amendment | 79 |
Final Years | 92 |
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