Joseph Story lived from 1779 to 1845 and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1812 until his death, appointed at age thirty-two, the youngest justice in the Court's history. He simultaneously held the Dane Professorship of Law at Harvard, where his lectures helped establish the case-method study of American law, and he authored the multi-volume Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) along with influential commentaries on equity jurisprudence, conflict of laws and agency, works that shaped nineteenth-century American legal education on both sides of the Atlantic.
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RoleAssociate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; legal scholar 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Cross-Tradition Connections
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Story presided over the court after Chief Justice John Marshall's death in 1835. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), despite his opposition to slavery, Story upheld the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 to strike down state statutes regarding the recapture of escaped slaves. Also in 1842, Story created a "federal common law" for commercial cases in Swift v. Tyson.
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