The Prophet of Harvard Law
James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy
- 2022 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Political and Social Sciences (Adult Nonfiction)
Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students in the latter years of the nineteenth century. Thayer was no mere professor in the eyes of his loyal disciples; he was a prophet bequeathing to them sacred truths. His followers eventually came to preside over their own courtrooms and classrooms, and from these privileged perches they remade the law in Thayer’s image.
