Leadership on the federal bench : the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein / by Jeffrey B. Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Jeffrey B. (Jeffrey Brandon), 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weinstein, Jack B.

United States. District Court (New York : Eastern District)--Biography.

United States.

Judges--New York (State)--Biography.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein considers the ways a particularly gifted federal judge seized the opportunities available to district judges to influence the results of the cases before him, and employed the tools available to him to make policy having a national impact. In the book, author Jeffrey Morris considers the ways in which the judge, Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York, has been limited by his position. This book adds to the slim literature about the policy-making role of district judges applying the work of legal historians, p

Contents:

"All the facts of real life revealed in our work" : the "job" of a federal district judge

The years before appointment to the bench, 1921-67

The political and legal environment within which Jack Weinstein judged : the nation and the district, 1967-2007

Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's judging

"An activist seeker of troublesome issues" : Jack Weinstein's first decade on the bench, 1967-76

"Making the unequal equal through the alchemy of the law :" growing renown, 1977-86

"Imaginative reformer" and "vindicator of the ideal of a judge" : Jack Weinstein's work, 1987-96

"Under the blindfold, does justice weep?" : Jack Weinstein and sentencing

"Feeling like the Man of la Mancha pursuing enamored justice" : Jack Weinstein's judicial work, 1997-2007

Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (I)

Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (II).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

0-19-025997-3

1-283-13044-0

9786613130440

0-19-987765-3

OCLC:

729871001