The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges.
In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist Court. White traces the develo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2007.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199724307 019972430X 1281374601 9781281374608 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1 John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition; 2 Kent, Story, and Shaw: The Judicial Function and Property Rights; 3 Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power; 4 Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State Judiciary in the Late Nineteenth Century: Cooley and Doe; 5 John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor; 6 The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century; 7 Holmes, Brandeis, and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism; 8 Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the Chief Justiceship; 9 Personal versus Impersonal Judging: The Dilemmas of Robert Jackson.