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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

About Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) was an American lawyer and judge. Wounded three times as a Union officer in the Civil War, he practised law in Boston, edited Kent's Commentaries and lectured at Harvard. He served on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1882 and on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.

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The Common Law

1881 · 19th Century · Political Theory

The Common Law is a book of twelve lectures that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in 1880 and published in 1881. It is one of the founding works of American legal thought.

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