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The Prophet of Harvard Law is a much-needed addition to the literature on legal realism. The authors detail the ways in which our assumptions that law does and should respond to social realities relies in great part on Thayer and the legal giants--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Roscoe Pound, Learned Hand--who became his acolytes. Deeply researched, this is the first volume to limn the influence of Thayer and his followers, helping fill what has been a gap in our understanding of the evolution of the law.--Philippa Strum, author of On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law Constitutional historians have long recognized the importance of James Bradley Thayer as both a progenitor of legal realism and an articulate advocate of judicial restraint. In this well-written and well-researched study, Andrew Porwancher and his students give us not only an acute analysis of Thayer's jurisprudence, but also of his influence on Holmes, Brandeis, Pound, and others. This book should be required reading not only for students but for judges as well.--Melvin Urofsky, professor emeritus of history, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Prophet of Harvard Law is a much-needed addition to the literature on legal realism. The authors detail the ways in which our assumptions that law does and should respond to social realities relies in great part on Thayer and the legal giants--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Roscoe Pound, Learned Hand--who became his acolytes. Deeply researched, this is the first volume to limn the influence of Thayer and his followers, helping fill what has been a gap in our understanding of the evolution of the law. --Philippa Strum, author of On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law Constitutional historians have long recognized the importance of James Bradley Thayer as both a progenitor of legal realism and an articulate advocate of judicial restraint. In this well-written and well-researched study, Andrew Porwancher and his students give us not only an acute analysis of Thayer's jurisprudence, but also of his influence on Holmes, Brandeis, Pound, and others. This book should be required reading not only for students but for judges as well. --Melvin Urofsky, professor emeritus of history, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Andrew Porwancher is the Wick Cary Professor in Constitutional Studies at the University of Oklahoma.Jake Mazeitis is a third-year JD candidate at Yale Law School. Taylor Jipp is a master’s student in philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge. Austin Coffey is an analyst at Kissinger Associates Incorporated.

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