Justice Story's enormous influence on American law is demonstrated in this collection of his writings, edited by his son. Includes Story's 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. Second expanded edition, the first edition having been compiled by Joseph Story in 1935 at the age of fifty seven. Originally published: Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1852. x, [i], 828 pp.