Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xiii, 417 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-398) and index. |
Contents |
The lesson of leeches -- If men were angels: a Constitution by and for "corruptible human hands" -- A covenant with death: Dred Scott and the biology of slavery -- The roots of modernity: Holmes, Brandeis, and the new legal science -- "Let us not become legal monks": legal realism and the realistic jurisprudence of the Supreme Court -- "Attainder of blood": race and eugenics in the 1940s -- Autocracy of caste: Brown v. Board of Education and the golden age of social science -- The right to be let alone: privacy and the problem of defining life and death -- Lifter or leveler?: equal protection in the land of rugged individualism -- In the Supreme Court we trust: science and supposition in the Religion Clauses -- Shouting fire: the moral and empirical consequences of free speech -- The house that the Court built: the future of science at the Suypreme Court. |
Subject |
United States. Supreme Court.
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United States. Supreme Court. |
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Judicial process -- United States.
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Judicial process. |
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United States. |
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Science and law -- United States.
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Science and law. |
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Constitutional law -- United States.
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Constitutional law. |
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Forensic sciences -- United States.
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Forensic sciences. |
ISBN |
0805072748 |
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