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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452113403321
• Autore: White G. Edward
• 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

Victorian turns, NeoVictorian returns [[electronic resource] ] : essays on fiction and culture / / edited by Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456600703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-33436-0; 9786612334368; 1-4438-1181-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GayPenny <1945->; JohnstonJudith <1947->; WatersCatherine
• Disciplina: 823.809355
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature and society - England - History - 19th century; Electronic books.; Great Britain Civilization 19th century
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Victorian turns -- pt. 2. NeoVictorian returns.
• Sommario/riassunto: Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture brings together essays by scholars of international reputation in nineteenth-century British literature. Encompassing new work on Victorian writers and subjects as well as later readings, rewritings, and adaptations, the two-part arrangement of this collection highlights an ; ongoing dialogue. Part One: Victorian Turns focuses principally on some of the major novelists of the period-George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Br...