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The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States is a multivolume history that has been planned to give a comprehensive survey of the development of the Court from the beginning of the nation to the Warren Court. The Press will publish volumes on the Taft Court, the Hughes Court, the Stone/Vison Court, and the Warren Court.

  • General Editors: Maeva Marcus, George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC

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2 results in Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Taft Court
  • Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930
  • Volume 10
  • Robert C. Post
  • Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023
  • The Taft Court offers the definitive history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Using untapped archival material, Robert C. Post engagingly recounts the ambivalent effort to create a modern American administrative state out of the institutional innovations of World War I. He shows how the Court sought to establish authoritative forms of constitutional interpretation despite the culture wars that enveloped prohibition and pervasive labor unrest. He explores in great detail how constitutional law responds to altered circumstances. The work provides comprehensive portraits of seminal figures such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. It describes William Howard Taft's many judicial reforms and his profound alteration of the role of Chief Justice. A critical and timely contribution, The Taft Court sheds light on jurisprudential debates that are just as relevant today as they were a century ago.

The Hughes Court
  • From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941
  • Volume 11
  • Mark V. Tushnet
  • Published online:
    13 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022
  • The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another. This comprehensive study of the Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941 – when Charles Evans Hughes was Chief Justice – shows how nearly all justices, even the most conservative, accepted the broad premises of a Progressive theory of government and the Constitution. The Progressive view gradually increased its hold throughout the decade, but at its end, interest group pluralism began to influence the law. By 1941, constitutional and public law was discernibly different from what it had been in 1930, but there was no sharp or instantaneous Constitutional Revolution in 1937 despite claims to the contrary. This study supports its conclusions by examining the Court's work in constitutional law, administrative law, the law of justiciability, civil rights and civil liberties, and statutory interpretation.