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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452113403321

Autore

White G. Edward

Titolo

The American judicial tradition [[electronic resource] ] : profiles of leading American judges / / G. Edward White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-37460-1

9786611374600

0-19-972430-X

1-4356-1418-6

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (623 p.)

Disciplina

347.73/2634

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-582) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

10 Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: The Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint11 Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging: Roger Traynor; 12 The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan; 13 The Anti-Judge: William O. Douglas and the Ambiguities of Individuality; 14 The Burger Court and the Idea of "Transition" in the American Judicial Tradition; 15 The Unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court; 16 The Tradition and the Future: A Summary; Appendix: Chronology of Judicial Service; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 development of the American judicial tradition through biographical sketches of the careers and contributions of these renowned judges. In this updated edition, he argues that the Rehnquist Court's approach to constitutional interpretation may have ushered in a new stage in the American judicial tradition