He edited the magazine American Law Review

An interesting fact about Oliver Wendell Holmes is that, in addition to practicing private law, he also writes a number of articles and essays on law. Between 1870 and 1873, Homes was also the American Law Review's editor. In addition to the book Common Law, he also published a collection of his lectures and articles in 1881.

His main scholarly contributions include serving as editor of the New American Law Review, writing about state supreme court rulings, and creating a new edition of Kent's Commentaries, which served as a case law compendium for practitioners during a time when official reports were hard to come by. In a collection of lectures that were assembled and published as The Common Law in 1881, he condensed his laboriously attained understanding.

Additionally, he gave a speech titled "The Way of Law," which is best known for his theory of law prediction. According to this theory, "he predicted what the courts would actually do, and nothing more contrived, I mean the law," and according to the "bad guy" view of the law, "if you really want to know the law and nothing else, you have to look at it like a man bad, who is only interested in the material consequences that such knowledge allows him to predict," you must approach.