Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.

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From: Trial
Date: 19940501
Author:LeBel, Paul A.

G. Edward White

Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 628 pp., $37.50.

The publication of a biography of one of this nation's most highly regarded jurists by one of our leading legal historians is an occasion for even casual readers of legal history to note. G. Edward White, the John B. Minor Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia, has written often and well about the history and philosophy of judicial decision making. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the subject of his latest biography, has occupied a prominent place in the literature ...

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