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Leadership on the federal bench : the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein /

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 nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Jeffrey B. (Jeffrey Brandon), 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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).