Thayer, James Bradley. Legal Essays. Boston: The Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1923. Third Impression. [7287]
Former library copy, maroon cloth with white spine label, bookplate & card pocket, xvi., 402 clean pp., tight. Good. Hardcover.
A collection of essays including The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law; A People without Law; Dicey's Law of the English Constitution; "Law and Logic"; A Chapter of Legal History in Massachusetts; Trial by Jury and Things Supernatural; and The Teaching of English Law at Universities."
James Bradley Thayer (1831-1902), b. Haverhill, Massachusetts; "One of the major figures in American constitutional law if only because of his influence upon Holmes, Brandeis, and Frankfurter (to say nothing of Learned and Augustus Hand)...[He was] one of the giants at the Harvard Law School during its 'golden age' at the close of the nineteenth century." - Wallace Mendelson, The Influence of James B. Thayer Upon the Work of Holmes, Brandeis, and Frankfurter, Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1979).
