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Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. The Prophet of Harvard Law draws from untouched archival sources to reveal the origins of the legal world we inhabit today. It is a story of ideas and people in equal measure.

Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Thayer’s Origins
  • 2. Thayer’s Scholarship
  • 3. Theyer’s ProtÉgÉ: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • 4. Thayer’s Students: Louis Brandeis, John Henry Wigmore, Roscoe Pound, and Learned Hand
  • 5. Thayer’s Heir: Felix Frankfurter
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

    The Prophet of Harvard Law James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy

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        Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
        Publication Date: 9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780700633593, 978-0700633593
        ISBN10: 0700633596

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. The Prophet of Harvard Law draws from untouched archival sources to reveal the origins of the legal world we inhabit today. It is a story of ideas and people in equal measure.

        Table of Contents
        • List of Figures
        • Preface
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • 1. Thayer’s Origins
        • 2. Thayer’s Scholarship
        • 3. Theyer’s ProtÉgÉ: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
        • 4. Thayer’s Students: Louis Brandeis, John Henry Wigmore, Roscoe Pound, and Learned Hand
        • 5. Thayer’s Heir: Felix Frankfurter
        • Conclusion
        • Notes
        • Index

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