The Warren court : a retrospective / edited by Bernard Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Bernard, 1923-1997.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appellate courts--United States--History.

Appellate courts.

United States. Supreme Court--History.

United States.

Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.

Warren, Earl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A judge-made revolution? The very term seems an oxymoron, yet this is exactly what the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren achieved. In Bernard Schwartzs latest work, based on a conference at the University of Tulsa College of Law, we get the first retrospective on the Warren Court--a detailed analysis of the Courts accomplishments, including original pieces by well-known judges, professors, lawyers, popular writers such as Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, David J. Garrow, and a rare personal remembrance by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. The Warren Court: A Retrospective begins with

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. A Personal Remembrance; 3. Earl Warren and His America; I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CORPUS; II. THE JUSTICES; III. A BROADER PERSPECTIVE

Notes:

Papers presented to a Warren Court conference in 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

1-280-76091-5

0-19-535584-9

OCLC:

252640965