Viewing Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: "The Path of the Law." (1897).Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: "The Path of the Law." (1897).On January 8, 1897, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., then a Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, delivered an address dedicating a hall at Boston University Law School. "The Path of the Law" is famous, provocative, influential and, in the words of Harvard Law Professor David Rosenberg, "of monumental significance to understanding the intellectual history of American law." |