The Path of the Law

THE PATH OF THE LAW

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

10 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 457 (1897)

When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is a profession, why people will pay lawyers to argue for them or...