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Can We Still Learn Anything from Holmes?

Can We Still Learn Anything from Holmes?. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Holmes at 20 (1861). Holmes at 32 (1872). Holmes Timeline. 1841: Born in Boston 1857-61: Harvard College 1861-65: Soldier in Civil War; wounded at Ball’s Bluff, Antietam and Chancellorsville

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Can We Still Learn Anything from Holmes?

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  1. Can We Still Learn Anything from Holmes?

  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

  3. Holmes at 20 (1861)

  4. Holmes at 32 (1872)

  5. Holmes Timeline • 1841: Born in Boston • 1857-61: Harvard College • 1861-65: Soldier in Civil War; wounded at Ball’s Bluff, Antietam and Chancellorsville • 1864-66 Harvard Law School; first trip to Europe • 1867 Admitted to practice law; begins writing on legal topics

  6. Holmes Timeline (part 2) • 1872 Marries Fannie Bowditch Dixwell; continues practice; edits Kent’s Commentaries; lectures at Harvard Law School • 1881 Publication of The Common Law • 1882 Leaves practice to teach full time • 1882 Appointed to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court • 1902 Appointed to US Supreme Court • 1932 Retires from US Supreme Court • 1935 Dies at home in Washington, DC

  7. Eugene Debs

  8. U.S. Supreme Court -- 1925

  9. “Old Senate Chamber” Supreme Court Courtroom, 1860 - 1935

  10. “The life of the law has not been logic; is has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.” O.W. Holmes, The Common Law

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