“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

One of P*LAW’s newest endeavors is our Supreme Court oral history project, documenting the stories of the men and women at the heart of the landmark 20th-century Supreme Court precedents that bear their names. With the support of Princeton University Humanities Council, and a national advisory panel of leading legal historians and journalists, P*LAW is hosting former Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Joshua Prager to lead a series of original investigations and interviews with parties and lawyers from historic cases from before the time of the current sitting justices. Engaging current law-interested Princeton students in the practical work of legal, historical, and journalistic research, the project aims to capture the lived experience of these cases in all their human complexity.