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.

United States. Supreme Court.

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 545 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

Now available in an expanded and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Warren Burger. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of these renowned judges. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

Contents:

1. John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition 7

2. Kent, Story, and Shaw: The Judicial Function and Property Rights 35

3. Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power 64

4. Miller, Bradley, Field, and the Reconstructed Constitution 84

5. Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State Judiciary in the Late Nineteenth Century: Cooley and Doe 109

6. John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor 129

7. The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 146

8. Holmes, Brandeis, and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism 150

9. The Four Horsemen: The Sources of Judicial Notoriety 178

10. Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the Chief Justiceship 200

11. Personal versus Impersonal Judging: The Dilemmas of Robert Jackson 230

12. Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: The Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint 251

13. Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging; Roger Traynor 292

14. The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan 317

15. The Anti-Judge: William O. Douglas and the Ambiguities of Individuality 369

16. The Burger Court and the Idea of "Transition" in the American Judicial Tradition 421

17. The Tradition and the Future 460.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [523]-536.

ISBN:

0195057260

019505685X

OCLC:

18072013