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The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / G. Edward White.
- Title
- The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / G. Edward White.
- Author
- White, G. Edward
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xxx, 592 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Previous editions published : 1988 (expanded), 1976 (1st).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-549) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- John Marshall and the genesis of the tradition -- Kent, Story, and Shaw: the judicial function and property rights -- Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power -- Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century: Cooley and Doe -- John Marshall Harlan I: the precursor -- The tradition at the close of the nineteenth century -- Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism -- Hughes and Stone: ironies of the chief justiceship -- Personal versus impersonal judging: the dilemmas of Robert Jackson -- Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: the dialectic of freedom and constraint -- Rationality and intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor -- The mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan -- The anti-judge: William O. Douglas and the ambiguities of individuality -- The Burger Court and the idea of "transition" in the American judicial tradition -- The unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court -- The tradition and the future : a summary.
- ISBN
- 9780195139631 (pbk.)
- 0195139631 (pbk.)
- 9780195139624 (cloth)
- 0195139623 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2006017230
- OCLC
- 69423279
- SCSB-10333949
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library