Gray, John Chipman

(1839–1915) lawyer, professor; born in Brighton, Mass. Judge advocate major for the Union army in the Civil War, afterwards he joined John C. Ropes in a successful Boston law practice (still an active law firm, Ropes & Gray) and simultaneously taught at Harvard Law School (1869–1913). He helped found and edit the American Law Review (1866–70). His works on real property and legal theory are authoritative.

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First, I suspect that he and others working in this vein may well find themselves in conversation with figures from the legal past such as Karl Llewellyn and, before Llewellyn, John Chipman Gray. Llewellyn lacked Professor Knight's far more sophisticated understanding of the problems of measurement, but his great book, The Common Law Tradition, (17) could be seen as a first and necessarily primitive effort to develop the tools for evaluating opinions that Knight is seeking.

A response to Professor Knight, are empiricists asking the right questions about judicial decisionmaking?

A good place to start is with a line from John Chipman Gray, attorney and professor at Harvard Law School, who wrote in 1909 that "the law is what the judges declare." (3)

What appellate judges do

George Meade, Stephen Minot Weld to FitzJohn Porter, and John Chipman Gray to Gen.

Rich man's war, rich man's fight: class, ideology, and discipline in the Union army

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