The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard universit

by Joseph Story, William Wetmore Story (Editor)

Second expanded edition, the first edition having been compiled by Joseph Story in 1935 at the age of fifty seven. Justice Story's enormous influence on American law is demonstrated in this collection of his writings, edited by his son. Includes his autobiography that was written in the form of a fascinating long letter to his son, and many other articles, essays, lectures, and biographical sketches of judges and lawyers (including Chief Justice John Marshall and Associate Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington). Topics include a proposed course of legal study, maritime law, piracy and the slave trade, commercial law, codification of the common law and much more.

828 pages, Hardcover

First published February 22, 2012

About the author

American lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad case, and especially for his magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
Story opposed Jacksonian democracy, saying it was "oppression" of property rights by republican governments when popular majorities began (in the 1830s) to restrict and erode the property rights of the minority of rich men. Historians agree that Justice Joseph Story reshaped American law—as much or more than Marshall or anyone else—in a conservative direction that protected property rights.