The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the
most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a
member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and
goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on
the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's
greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would
carry the American people into the modern age without losing those
values.