| Description |
x, 441 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 421-433. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
John Marshall and the genesis of tradition -- Kent, Story, and Shaw: the judicial function and property rights -- Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power -- Miller, Bradley, Field, and the reconstructed Constitution -- Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century: Cooley and Doe -- John Marshall Harlan I: the precursor -- Tradition at the close of the nineteenth century -- Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism -- Four horsemen: the sources of judicial notoriety -- 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 -- Mosaic of the Warren court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan -- Tradition and the future -- Appendix: Chronology of judicial service. |
| Subject |
Judges -- United States -- Biography.
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Judges. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
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United States. Supreme Court. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0195020170 : $15.95 |
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9780195020175 |
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