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A long shadow

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From: Judicature
Date: 20070901
Author:Shiffman, Stuart

A long shadow Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint, by Frederic R. Kellogg. Cambridge University Press. 2007. 218 pages. $70.

The shadow cast by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. over American law and jurisprudence is lengthy. Though it has been more than a century since Holmes was nominated and confirmed as a justice of the United States Supreme Court, and 74 years since his retirement, Holmes remains a towering figure for any scholar of the role of law in our society. In the past two decades alone he has been the subject of four biographies, four symposia, two new ...

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