The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / G. Edward White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, G. Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--History.

United States.

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Profiles of leading American judges

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028613-X

1-281-37460-1

9786611374600

0-19-972430-X

1-4356-1418-6

OCLC:

476245179

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07939 hdl