From: Yale Law Journal | Date: June 1, 1995| Author: Hovenkamp, Herbert | COPYRIGHT 1995 Yale University, School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Volume VIII of the Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States covers the period (1888-1910) during which Melville Weston Fuller was Chief Justice. Owen Fiss' book begins with candor. By all accounts, Fuller's Court "ranks among the worst" in Supreme Court history.(1) This was the Court that gave us Lochner v. New York(2) and the development of substantive due process,(3) paranoid hostility toward government regulation of business,(4) and condemnation of the feder...