Abstract
Among the many brave and brilliant dissents from the Supreme Court, few are more historically significant than that of Benjamin Curtis in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Earl Maltz insists that the traditional view of Curtis as a dispassionate Justice is incorrect; Curtis is better seen as the "Last Angry Man." This paper considers the famous dissent, the man who wrote it, and the technical analysis Maltz claims as sine qua non to a proper understanding of the opinion.
Recommended Citation
R. O. Williams,
Benjamin Curtis: Top of the List,
82
Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
277
(2007).
Available at:
https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol82/iss1/10
