James Barr Ames
Cambridge, Mass., 1874
HOLLIS 3183251, copy 4
This copy of future Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean James Barr Ames’ (LL.B. 1872) seminal casebook on Torts belonged to future Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (LL.B. 1877), a student in then Assistant Professor Ames’ Torts class. Brandeis entered HLS in 1875, shortly after the Law School implemented Dean Langdell’s case method. From Brandeis’ copious annotations one can see that he viewed his Torts casebook as akin to a lab notebook, with general legal rules, notes about the cases, and citations to additional authorities scribbled in the margins.