Join the Society for a discussion of The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930 (1924), which is Volume 10 of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States with authors Robert Post and Robert Gordon.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise was established by Congress in 1955 to administer funds bequeathed by the associate justice to document and disseminate the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Robert Post is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He served as the school’s 16th dean from 2009 until 2017. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Post specializes in constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the First Amendment.
Post is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Robert Gordon is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Stanford University. His expertise is in American legal history, evidence, the legal profession, and law and globalization spans four decades. He has written extensively on contract law, legal philosophy, and on the history and current ethics and practices of the organized bar. Professor Gordon is known for Taming the Past: Law in History and History in Law (essays on legal history and the uses of history in legal argument); and The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1992)