Beneath the titans

Article Abstract:

One problem that judicial biography has been reluctant to address is the overemphasis on US Supreme Court Justices. Few biographies have been written about state appellate court judges and US Court of Appeals judges, and trial court judges are given no attention at all. The canonization of justices like Louis D. Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. demonstrates this preoccupation and perpetuates it. Publishers are reluctant to release biographies on subjects that have not already been featured in biographies, so more biographies continue to be published regarding the same justices.

Officials and employees, State courts

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The secular search for the sacred

Article Abstract:

The canonization of US Supreme Court Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was not because of some epistemological modernism that the two great justices shared. Arguments that assert that they both were sceptical of the will of nature and God and advocated human will as a force are not supported by biographies of the two men. The common ground that Holmes and Brandeis shared may simply be their exceptional, and distinct, judicial abilities.

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