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The 14 pages that link to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., each with the reason it gives.

• Legal realismRelated: His account of law as predictions of what courts will do anticipated realist themes.

• Judicial restraintRelated: His opinions argued that courts should not substitute their policy preferences for those of legislatures.

• Legal formalismRelated: Holmes’s critiques helped unsettle confidence in purely logical accounts of legal development.

• Harvard Law SchoolRelated: He graduated from the school and later became one of its most influential legal alumni.

• Espionage Act of 1917Related: His shifting views on the act’s speech restrictions became central to free-speech history.

• Legal interpretationRelated: His work questioned purely logical accounts of how judges interpret and apply law.

• JurisprudenceRelated: His prediction theory helped inspire realist approaches to understanding law.

• Felix FrankfurterRelated: Frankfurter admired Holmes and helped shape his posthumous public reputation.

• Harvard Law ReviewRelated: His essay “The Path of the Law” appeared in the journal in 1897.

• Richard PosnerRelated: Posner drew on Holmes’s pragmatic view of judging and law.

• Learned HandRelated: Holmes’s free-speech opinions provided a major point of reference for Hand’s own thinking.

• Legal studiesRelated: His pragmatic approach helped challenge purely formal accounts of law.

• Legal theoryRelated: His prediction-based account foregrounds what courts actually do.

• Philosophy of lawRelated: His perspective helped inspire realist approaches to legal study.