Over 120 years ago the august American jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, made a stark prediction about the litigator of the future: “the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and master of economics.” (The Path of the Law, Harvard Law Review, 1897). Why did he presage this at the end of the Nineteenth Century, and is he being proved correct? The Path of the Law was published the same year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark…Read more
My Old Man
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re
